topic About APache-based Web Server upgrade in Operating System - HP-UX

About APache-based Web Server upgrade

Tim_ct — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:55:12 GMT

On HP-UX 11.11, it is default to install Apache-based web server 2.0.49.

If upgrading from 2.0.49 to the newest version 2.0.59, do I need to swremove the old version first? Is there any document from HP?

Re: About APache-based Web Server upgrade

Torsten. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:55:26 GMT

The Jun 07 media already contains
hpuxwsApache A.2.0.58.00 HP-UX Apache-based Web Server

and I guess the later media releases have newer versions.

swinstall will manage the update - so simply install the newer version.

Re: About APache-based Web Server upgrade

Tim_ct — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:00:43 GMT

so how about the configuration files, will they be override? Anyone have experience doing the upgrade?

Re: About APache-based Web Server upgrade

likid0 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:14:48 GMT

I did the upgrade(not the same versions you mention), and my config files were fine, but i made a full backup of my apache config dir.

Make a a backup just in case!!

Re: About APache-based Web Server upgrade

Olivier Masse — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:13:24 GMT

Although the upgrade does preserve some files, it *WILL* overwrite those which are less used.

For example, the last update I did a few weeks ago to fix a security issue scrapped php.ini and apachectl which were customized, so better make a backup and try it on your test environment first.

Olivier

Re: About APache-based Web Server upgrade

David Nixon — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:04:14 GMT

It is always helpful if you can test the
upgrade before applying it to a production server. E.g. Apache 2.0.58.01
needed Perl 5.8.8 to be installed first, with Apache shut down. However the new 'apachectl' startup file wanted to use Perl 5.6.1

There are often issues like that to deal
with after an Apache upgrade.

Re: About APache-based Web Server upgrade

Tim_ct — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:25:45 GMT

thanks for the information.
Sorry I am not experience with apache.

I hit another problem when trying to stop apache.

As I know start and stop of apache is control by apachectl start/stop.
But when I execute "apachectl stop", "httpd" is still in "ps -f".

It is not related to the upgrade issue, but I just curious to know, beside apachectl status, is there any way to check apache is currently running?

Re: About APache-based Web Server upgrade

Torsten. — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:57:42 GMT

httpd is also used for other functionality.

apachectl will control the server listen on port 80, but apache based server is also used for example
ISEE - port 5060
SMH - port 2301/2381

Read the "ps -ef" output carefully, SMH related server looks like this (for this example):

hpsmh 19628 19616 0 16:49:06 ? 0:00 /opt/hpws/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL -f /opt/hpsmh/conf/sm

Re: About APache-based Web Server upgrade

Tim_ct — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:33:23 GMT

Thanks for your replay. Information is very useful!