[olug] Distros with httpd 2.4 PHP 5.4 packages

[Sam Flint]

just compile it your self...I will, and compile in php/modperl when i
get my server set up

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:46 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found it with a little Google-fu.
>
> sudo apt-get install -t experimental apache2
>
> Debian has updated the modules in experimental. The only third-party one
> I'm using outside of that is mod_pagespeed, which is updated for 2.4, but
> still has a package dependency on apache 2.2. So I installed it with:
>
> dpkg --force-depends -i mod-pagespeed-*.deb
>
> Then I restarted Apache and I have a working 2.4 install, even with
> mod_pagespeed. However, any apt-get install wants to remove mod-pagespeed
> now.
>
> Next I'm going to see if I can also get mod_spdy working in 2.4 since I'm
> going all out.
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Christopher Cashell <topher-olug at zyp.org>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:58 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm not used to Debian-based servers. I've got a VM running with Debian
>> Sid
>> > and I've added the experimental repository to sources.list. How do I
>> > upgrade to apache 2.4?
>>
>> You can force a repository at install time.  You'd use something like this:
>>
>>  sudo aptitude install httpd2/experimental
>>
>> Note, I believe Apache 2.4 breaks ABI compatibility with 2.2, so
>> external modules may need to be rebuild/recompiled to work with it.
>> You can make that easier by using aptitude to pull down everything
>> needed to rebuild/recompile the package.  After installing the Apache
>> 2.4 package, try installing the module (php, etc) you want.  If it
>> complains about dependencies, or has errors after installation, you'll
>> probably have to do a bit of rebuilding.
>>
>> For example, if I needed to rebuild mod_foo, with Debian package name
>> of libapache-mod-foo against apache 2.4, I'd start with:
>>
>>  sudo aptitude build-depends libapache-mod-foo
>>  sudo apt-get --compile source libapache-mod-foo
>>  sudo dpkg -i libapache-mod-foo*.deb
>>
>> There's a pretty decent chance that the package will "just work" from that.
>>
>> Depending on exactly what you're doing, how involved it is, etc, there
>> might be a little trial and error before everything sorts out.  If you
>> run into issues, feel free to say something.  I'm not an expert, but
>> I've been using Debian for quite a while, so I've muddled my way
>> through a lot of this before.
>>
>> --
>> Christopher
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