hello dain, just to make sure: you did ofcourse stop the old httpd before doing this upgrade? i know that a running version cannot be patched on the fly, you need at least to restart it for it to discover new version and other metadata, and propably reload the libs. but i would suggest, since you did a standalone installation from the apache.org, and not the up2date/yum rhel packages precompiled repos, please uninstall that one first, and then traverse again with the new version that rhel doesnt actually know about just yet. This is because; they might patch you from the repos, and i dont think we can expect the package managers to take this in mind. what will happen to a 2.2.22 that is suddenly minor patched as being 2.2.3-->2.2.17 for instance, maybe some modules survive but the grand picture looks spoiled. thats my ½ cent. br congo On Fri, February 10, 2012 23:19, HARRIS, DAIN wrote: > Greetings comrades! I'm currently administering a rather impressive > system and I've been tasked with upgrading & patching many applications > that have been needing upgrades for some time now. One of them happens to > be httpd Apache that's currently running on RHEL 5 @ version 2.2.3 ( > httpd-2.2.3-53.el5_7.3 ). I've worked with Red Hat in the past but I'm a > bit rusty, and I haven't encountered a task like this yet. All I want to > do is upgrade from version 2.2.3 to 2.2.22, ideally overwriting the > existing version and retaining all data / conf files / directory > structure. Here's a small list of where I'm at so far: > > Downloaded the current version httpd 2.2.22 from Apache.org > Verified with md5 checksum > Configured as ./configure - -prefix /etc/httpd/ > Make > Make install > > Apache installs the new version to the existing /etc/httpd/ directory, but > the command ' service httpd start ' still runs the old version of Apache. > Also this command, httpd -V, still outputs the old version of Apache as > 2.2.3; > > Is there more tweaking needed in the OS to tell Apache where the new > install is? I shouldn't need to remove the old version first, then > install the new version should I? > > Best Regards, > > Dain Harris - Systems Engineer - Modelshop - AT&T Mobility and Consumer > Markets > 1277 Lenox Park BLVD NE Office 3A49, Atlanta GA 30319 > Office (404)499-7094 - Mobile (954)600-0090 > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx