I am interested in installing a newer version of Apache onto my RedHat9 machine, and in doing so, compile it with more module support than my existing version. I want to do it this way to avoid recompiling the working version and somehow screwing it up.

I arrived at this point because I am trying to integrate Tomcat with Apache and apparently, my working version of Apache was not built with APXS.

The Apache out of the box is in /etc/httpd. Is it possible to install a new version in /usr/local/apache2 without any compilation affecting the old version and files that it uses?--in case of a need to rollback.

Thanks in advance.