[lug] Upgrading Apache 2.0.40 rpm to 2.0.50 compiled from source

[Scott Herod]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Bill Thoen wrote:

> I'm trying to set up the latest version of PHP to plug a recently 
> discovered security gap, but it complained about my Apache 2.0.40 being 
> too old (it wants 2.0.44 or higher) I'm using RH 9.0 and this version of 
> Apache was installed from rpm as part of the 9.0 package. I've now got 
> Apache ver 2.0.55 source code as a tarball and am ready to build it.
> 
> My question is should I unistall the current httpd rpms and just install 
> the a freshly-compiled new version, or will the new version cleanly 
> overwrite the old? 
> 
> - Bill

I believe that when you build Apache by hand that by default it wants to 
go into /usr/local/.  So, in theory (and pretty easily in practice) you 
could have two different versions running simultaneously.

Scott