upgrading to 11.0

[Mark Vollmers]

Hi, all. I have just discovered that i will be forced to move from 10.20 to 11.0 so that I can install our new cad software. I have seen that everyone says to do a full install vs. an upgrade, so that it what I'll have to do. My question is about the software that is already loaded on the server. I assume that I will need to wipe everything out to install. I can restore from tape (or re-install some things). Some of the stuff is already configured, though. For example, we have an intranet site set up using Apache. I have no idea how it was configured or installed, and an reluctant to mess with it to find out, since it works. If I upgrade and then restore all the files from a tape, will these programs still work, or will they need to be re-installed/reconfigured? I'd appreciate some guidance. Thanks.

[Steven Sim Kok Leong · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It is still better and cleaner to recompile all your programs on HP-UX 11.

However, for statically-linked binaries, you should have no problems running them after restoring them from your backup.

As for dynamically-linked binaries, to be on the safe side, I would suggest that you recompile such binaries.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong
Brainbench MVP for Unix Admin
http://www.brainbench.com

[Shannon Petry]

If it is just apache, then look into the configuration file for the Document root, and find apaches root.

The possible locations would be /opt/apache or /usr/local/apache, but could be just about anywhere.

The configuration file is "httpd.conf" and should be saved as well as your cgi scripts, and web pages+images. It may well be worth saving your mime types files, and the other .conf files for apache. Also, find it's startup script and save this as well! Hopefully whoever installed it put it in the default /sbin/init.d!, but you can check the links in /sbin/rc?.d.

Once you find the httpd.conf file, I would grep that file for directory names, and find all data locations.

Once you upgrade you can download the pre-compiled binaries and install them (default location will be /opt/apache). Move your old config to the config directory, and re-create your directories for pages and scripts.

NOTE: I would do some digging on that server as well for sendmail configuration files, and other custom items like Perl 5.x, and Perl mods for apache like DBI. You may find that this needs to be re-installed as well!

Regards,
Shannon