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by **Darr** » Tue, 14 Aug 2001 03:55:38

I have Solaris 8 4/01 (x86) running the Apache package (1.3.12) based
on the install CD.
I would like to upgrade to the most recent version 1.3.20 but I am
curious about the way to do this.

I am still new to Solaris and the way it works. I have adopted the
play now learn later method.

Should I download the 1.3.20 solaris binaries or source from the
apache site or are there some patches that I can apply? I looked but
couldnt find any patches on apache's site.
(http://httpd.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/apply_to_1.3.12/)

by **John D Groenve** » Tue, 14 Aug 2001 04:41:44

I'm not sure why Sun ships Apache. Presumably because they intend to
bundle some applications with Solaris that rely on it.

If you intend to run Apache for your own use, then you should build
it from source yourself and install it somewhere other than /usr/apache
(my preference is /opt/apache)

If you're not using Sun's apache, then you should confirm that its not
running. I just pkgrm it.
John

by **Alan Coopersmit** » Tue, 14 Aug 2001 05:10:57

|I'm not sure why Sun ships Apache.

Because users asked for it? Because it gave a platform for deploying
the Network Cache Accelerator code?

It obviously won't be the best web server for everyone - but it saves
having to download from www.sunfreeware.com or trying to figure out how
to compile it yourself for setting up small web sites. (At work I use
the bundled version for running our groups web server - less than 1000
hits a week, nothing special, but it was setup in 5 minutes. For my
wife's web server that gets closer to 1000 hits/minute at peak load, I
compiled from source and specified the exact set of modules we needed.)

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by **David Michael** » Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:14:53

> I have Solaris 8 4/01 (x86) running the Apache package (1.3.12) based
> on the install CD.
> I would like to upgrade to the most recent version 1.3.20 but I am
> curious about the way to do this.

> I am still new to Solaris and the way it works. I have adopted the
> play now learn later method.

> Should I download the 1.3.20 solaris binaries or source from the
> apache site or are there some patches that I can apply? I looked but
> couldnt find any patches on apache's site.
> (http://httpd.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/apply_to_1.3.12/)

download both, see if you find it hard to build if you do, install the
binary.

I always perfer to build everything from source over installing
precompiled binaries although sometime I don't really feel I have a
choice. You learn alot more when you build.

by **Darr** » Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:04:06

> download both, see if you find it hard to build if you do, install the
> binary.

> I always perfer to build everything from source over installing
> precompiled binaries although sometime I don't really feel I have a
> choice. You learn alot more when you build.

Thanks. I'll try that.

by **Philip Bro** » Thu, 16 Aug 2001 03:55:11

>...
>I always perfer to build everything from source over installing
>precompiled binaries although sometime I don't really feel I have a
>choice.

normaly these day, I prefer binaries from trusted sources.
I hate apache1.x because some modules(SSL!) require you have source
I hate apache2.x because the modules I want to use, dont work with it.

so I limp along with 1.x

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