> It is important that this server be down for a minimum of time ie > minutes rather than hours.
Could you not install the new version in a different place, change your conf to reflect a different port (eg 8080), start it up and test against that port instead of the whole shutdown, uninstall re-install thingo? > > My thoughts are that I should be able to shutdown the existing Apache, > unistall the RPM and then do the make install on my new server. > Assuming I have the conf file correctly setup, with the web root and > doc root in particular, then all I should have to do is to start the > new server and we are back in business. Same here? Conf the mysql port to a different number? > > If that works then I need to do something similar with MySQL as I have > 'upgraded' from source over the top of an rpm install and there are > stray files all over the place! So shutdown MySql, uninstall the > server, get rid of any of the binaries from the source install - > taking care to protect my databases - re-install (perhaps the binary > version) and re-start. > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
