What do you mean by making apache secure? The latest version is secure, well, no security updates as of yet. What distro are you using? In most cases the latest distro's come with the latest versions of Apache, PHP and other packages your going to use to get a Web Server going..
Please ellaborate your definition of secure with apache, cause I don't understand how you make Apache secure unless you know all the vulnerabilities that haven't been found yet and you recompile with your own source code to get rid of them...