Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-users-archive@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 40985 invoked by uid 500); 17 Dec 2001 15:58:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: users@httpd.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list users@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 40959 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2001 15:58:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ficmain.ficgroup.com) (65.212.200.133) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 17 Dec 2001 15:58:47 -0000 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: Red Hat 7.2 and Apache MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:58:27 -0600 x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Red Hat 7.2 and Apache Thread-Index: AcGHEkwZYjXd0vxARmmqthEGZEtDxAAANBYQ From: "Paul Stephenson" To: X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Then do this if you don't want to move it. delete the old httpd (the one being called by the init scripts) then create a symlink in the directory that the old httpd was installed = and create a link called httpd linking it to the = /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd it would look like the following command ln -s /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd /"the directory that the old httpd was = in" this will create a sym link from the httpd that is in the "the directory = that the old httpd was in" to the httpd in /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd hope that helps Paul -----Original Message----- From: Kopetzky Robin CIV AFSC/SEP = [mailto:Robin.Kopetzky@kafb.saia.af.mil]=20 Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:42 AM To: 'users@httpd.apache.org' Subject: RE: Red Hat 7.2 and Apache That's not what I want. All of the books I have on = configuring/administering Apache, show the httpd executable installed at /usr/local/apache. That's where I want to keep the new files to make it easier for me to figure = out but want to configure Linux to load the new httpd executable but not the = old one at boot-time. There has to be an init???.conf file someplace in the = RH install that is run a boot-time that can be modified to do this. It took = me about an hour to find the originally installed Apache executable and = have no clue as to why Red Hat would not follow industry standards as to install locations. Linux is confusing enough for Windows users to learn but to = put an executable somewhere else other than where 90% of the documentation = on that file says it should be is just plain stupid. Sorry about rant but I'm just learning Linux and am getting more = frustrated every time I try to get this ISP running right. Robin E. Kopetzky - 'Sparky' ACS/GSG - Software Development Specialist - SAS Air Force Safety Center Kirtland Air Force Center 9700 Avenue G SE #279A Albuquerque, NM 87117-5670 (505) 853-7417=20 DSN 263-7417 "Human beings can always be counted on to assert with vigor their = God-given right to be stupid." - Dean Koontz in 'False Memory' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server = Project. See for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org