Updating Apache and PHP for eMail Server 2

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Situation

Background

Procedure

1. Download the following packages from our FTP server. A list of the available mirrors can be found here.
   
   The packages are located in the directory
   
   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/products/emailserver/2.0/mod_php4/
   
   

   apache-1.3.23-138.i386.rpm
   libmcrypt-2.4.7-16.i386.rpm
   libmcrypt-devel-2.4.7-16.i386.rpm
   libtool-1.3.4-137.i386.rpm
   mod_php4-4.0.4pl1-146.i386.rpm
   mod_ssl-2.8.7-0.i386.rpm
   openssl-0.9.6a-65.i386.rpm
   openssl-devel-0.9.6a-65.i386.rpm
   openssl-doc-0.9.6a-65.i386.rpm
   

   
   
2. Stop the web server:
   

   rcapache stop
   

   
   
3. Create a backup of the config files
   

   cp -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/php.ini /tmp
   

4. Install each package with
   

   rpm -Uhv --force --nodeps PACKAGE_NAME
   

   
   or, provided you have saved these packages (and only these packages!) in a directory, with
   

   rpm -Uhv --force --nodeps *.rpm
   

5. Copy the config files back
   

   cp -f /tmp/httpd.conf /tmp/php.ini /etc/httpd
   

6. Start the web server:
   

   rcapache start