I'm currently running CentOS 4.4 with Apache/2.0.52 installed via up2date/rpm.

I'm having some trouble getting apr working correctly, so I was going to build apache from source using the following notes:

wget http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.0.59.tar.bz2

tar -xjf httpd-2.0.59.tar.bz2

rm -rf httpd-2.0.59.tar.bz2

cd httpd-2.0.59

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/httpd-2.0.59 --enable-mods-shared=all --with-apr=/usr/local/apr --with-apr-util=/usr/local/apr

make

make install

cd /usr/local

ln -s httpd-2.0.59 apache2

My questions are.....

How will it know to use this version of apache rather than than rpm version currently installed? Do I have to remove those apache rpm's?

Will I have have to recompile php and mysql to get them to work with the apache source build since they were installed via rpm as well?

Do my ./configure flags look ok?

Is there a specific order I should build? apache, then php?

Thanks,

If you look under the docs for each (apache, mysql, php, especially for apache) it will answer most of your questions.

I've upgraded from RPM to source on various machines for various reasons, and usually find that the easiest, most foolproof method is to remove ALL of the related RPMs and install from source. You can try Apache from source with RPMs for PHP and MySQL (you'll definitely need to remove the Apache RPM installation) but you need to install all of the shared libraries, usually in the "dev" or "devel" package.