Tim wrote:

>> And how did you install Apache? From the Red Hat 9 installation files, or
>> from the Apache website, or both? I'd imagine that the Red Hat 9 supplied
>> files would install to where I mentioned, and Apache supplied ones could be
>> anything.

John Hudak <jhudak@sei.cmu.edu> posted:

> I downloaded the latest/greatest from apache. According to in Apache
> install guide, unless I specified a specific directory, Apache installs
> in /usr/local/apache2 (the default, or PREFIX) as it is referred to in
> the install docs.
>
> I did look in the RH directories after I did the install and did not
> find any appache files...then again, I was not sure where to look...I
> basically tried to browse them all....

It's quite usual for Red Hat to install Apache, unless you pick a
preconfigured option without it. For some damn annoying reason they've
given the package a very generic RPM name (httpd) rather than what the
program really is (as if there were only one HTTP daemon in the world).
They've done the same with calling BIND, "NAMED".

If you type "rpm -q httpd" (sans quotes) into a command line, you may find
Apache pre-installed by Red Hat. I don't know how you've installed Apache
from Apache themselves, but if it wasn't an RPM there's a very good chance
that you've got it installed twice over.

Typing "rpm -ql httpd" (sans quotes) into a command line should list all
files installed by that package, and where they're located.

Typing in "rpm -e httpd" (sans quotes, again), ought to remove Apache as
installed by Red Hat. And if you'd installed Apache from source or a
tarball, it ought to be left unmolested by this process.

> There should be an install log on RH9 but I don't know where it is...

You can see what's installed/updated via the up2date program in
"/var/log/up2date", but installations by another method won't be logged
there. There's an "rpmpkgs" file in the same directory listing RPM
packages, but I don't know what writes it there (nor why).


> I know that RH9 is EOLed...Just out of curiosity, how is it
> 'upgraded'?... by installing FC x? Doing kernel compiles ala the older
> Slackware and Infomagic distributions?

You can continue to update Red Hat 9 Linux by using third party services
(of which I can't recall the name). You can update from it by moving over
to the Fedora Core project, or any other distribution. Though, I think if
you're going to start compiling kernel packages, etc., you're probably best
to go the whole hog and get kernels from the real source, likewise for
other things (Xorg, Gnome, KDE, etc.) and roll your own system from
scratch.

> BTW, I relocated my webpages to /var/www/html and things work just
> fine...but I still dont understand what happened to
> /usr/local/apache2....oh well...

I've only read a bit about installing Apache from scratch, I've taken the
lazy route and used pre-compiled packages.

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