It was thus said that the Great Tim McIntyre once stated: > Hey all, > > I've been tasked with upgrading our ancient (1.2.9) apache to 2.3. I > have read and researched this a good bit but this is on our > production server so I need to be >>really<< sure. > > On FreeBSD > > ./configure --with-port=8080 --enable-mods-shared=most > make > make install > > After doing that I will have apache 2.3 installed and ready to listen > on port 8080 and my 1.2.9 apache will run as always >>completely<< > untouched? Then I'll be able to muck around with the config to get > everything working just right before swapping the ports for the final > launch? It should. Apache 2.x installs everything by default to /usr/local/apache2 (unless you state otherwise) and will run from there. > If I understand correctly I don't even have to use the --prefix > option because I'm going from 1.x to 2.x... correct? The --prefix option just tells configure where you want to install the resulting binaries, libraries and configuration files. > Do I end up with two separate APRs or does the existing one get > rebuilt and continue to work with the 1.2.9 install (assuming the > answer to my first question is yes)? I'm not sure if 1.2 even has APR, but the APR built for Apache 2.x shouldn't interfer with Apache 1.2. > I presume that "--enable-mods-shared=most" will enable all modules, > as DSOs, except the developer ones... correct? Not in my experience. When I did "--enable-mods-stared=all" I still had to specify a few (mostly the proxy and caching modules) explicitely. This was for Apache 2.2.2. You also want to make sure you enable mod-so else you won't have a way to load up the dynamically loadable modules. > I will then be able to install any 3rd party mods using > apxs...correct? Or does "--enable-mods-shared=most" include the > third party mods? It will probably include only the most commonly used modules that come with Apache (are there any third party modules that come with Apache?). -spc (Was very surprised that "--enable-mods-shared=all" didn't ... ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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