I'm currently running CentOS 4.4 with Apache/2.0.52 installed via up2date/rpm. I'm having some trouble getting apr working correctly, so I was going to build apache from source using the following notes: wget http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.0.59.tar.bz2 tar -xjf httpd-2.0.59.tar.bz2 rm -rf httpd-2.0.59.tar.bz2 cd httpd-2.0.59 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/httpd-2.0.59 --enable-mods-shared=all --with-apr=/usr/local/apr --with-apr-util=/usr/local/apr make make install cd /usr/local ln -s httpd-2.0.59 apache2 My questions are..... How will it know to use this version of apache rather than than rpm version currently installed? Do I have to remove those apache rpm's? Will I have have to recompile php and mysql to get them to work with the apache source build since they were installed via rpm as well? Do my ./configure flags look ok? Is there a specific order I should build? apache, then php? Thanks,
A better way to do this would be to rebuild the httpd (Apache) RPM with the new source... up2date --get-source httpd rpm -Uvh /var/spool/up2date/httpd-<version>.src.rpm wget http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.0.59.tar.bz2 mv httpd-2.0.59.tar.bz2 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS vi httpd.spec (modify the Version/Release lines) rpmbuild -ba httpd.spec Once built you can upgrade httpd rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/httpd*.rpm --test rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/httpd*.rpm That would be the recommended way to go about it.... installing software from source on an RPM distro is just dirty.... and should be avoided when possible.
