Hi, this may be a bit newbie-ish so bear with me.

I noticed the version of apache thats installed on my RH9/Plesk6 box is the Redhat 2.0.40 version.

My question is: is there a good way to upgrade the version of apache such that plesk will be happy with it, and not lose my plesk settings or cause hours upon hours of downtime?

I guess there are two levels of issue here.

First, there is the concept of ripping out the rpm and installing a new one (or compiling a new one for that matter). Does plesk recover gracefully from something like that?

Second, there is the fact that redhat's httpd installs in different places than the official version from the apache group itself. Will plesk be able to gracefully deal with that kind of change?

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Simply, you have only to grab the new Apache RPM and to update the existing installtion using rpm -Uvh name.rpm. Plesk is not affected by this in any way.

ok so now I just need to find an RPM for redhat httpd thats a newer version of apache. Am I correct in assuming that if I were to take a straight apache rpm from the apache group, that it would not work because redhat's httpd rpms install differently than apache's straight rpms?

I advise you to search for a RPM built for RedHat 9.

There are a httpd 2.0.47 Red Hat RPM (Rawhide) at
http://redhat.ifsic.univ-rennes1.fr/Red_Hat_Linux.html, but I don't want to try it myself since I have a lot of domains that I don't want to be down if things go wrong.

I much more would like to have MySQL 4 installed on my Plesk6 machine

Plesk 6.0.1 installs psa-suexec. Any thoughts on how an apache RPM upgrade will be affected now? And what about Apache RedHat RPMs coming set to 256 max clients?

1. Suexec is not affected.
2. You can compile your own version of Apache with higher limits.

The httpd-2.0.47-4.i386.rpm will not install on RH9. You need more RPMs from Rawhide to get this working: All server modules (PHP, mod_perl, mod_ssl etc), Perl, and glibc.



I tried that as well. MySQL 4 will break Plesk's dom_ctrl.php3 script