Re: [cobalt-developers] Time to upgrade Apache myself

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So it looks like something I will look further into before diving in. I
> really am not a fan of os restores, and dread ever getting to that
> point.

William, I have not compiled Apache from source on the XTR, but have plenty
of times on all of the other RaQ models.  Until you do a make install in
Apache, nothing you do touches anything outside the directory you unpacked
the Apache source to.  So ensure that you backup relevant files beforehand
and instead of doing a make install, stop at make and manually move the
Apache binary and modules to the proper location and test the install.  If
you need to, you can always revert to the previous install from your
backups.  And if you're really paranoid, you can install Apache (and all
dependencies) to a non-standard location and non-standard port so you can
test the entire installation without ever touching the production install
and then only install it to the production location and ports after you're
comfortable it's working right.

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