HOWTO upgrade APache?

[ShawnJStewart]

I confess, I am a linux newbie, though I must admit the relationship has been love at first sight. That said, here's my situation.

How does one go about upgrading the Apache server on Linux? I am currently running Red Hat 7.0 with the Apache version that came with it (1.3.12 I believe). I'd like to upgrade it to 1.3.19 and 2.0 when it becomes available.

Thanks in advance!

[Golden_Eternity]

Well, there are a couple ways to do it... One thing you can do is get the rpm off the RedHat site and as root rpm -Fvh <filename>. This would probably be the best method for you.

Alternately, you could get the tarball from apache.org, and go through the painful process of setting up the directories to match the RedHat distro (assuming you want to maintain the same structure) during the ./configure part of the process...