Updating Apache

[JeriR]

HI,

I'm new to Plesk, so I hope this question doesn't sound too foolish.

It's my understanding that Plesk uses a special version of Apache, correct?

I'm using

Version psa v8.0.1_build80060618.11 os_FedoraCore 4
OS Linux 2.6.16-1.2115_FC4

According the Component Info :

httpd 2.0.54-10.3

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Now here's the problem.

With this version of Apache, and version 2.0.55 if you use multiple includes you get segmentation errors.

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=35484

On a simple page, we have the header, navbar and footers as includes. Then we have 1 or more MySQL query results on the page.

The MySQL works fine by itself, but add an include and it stops working.

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So, my question is how do I get Apache 2.0.56 or greater on the server?

Is this updated automatically by the updater? If it is, based on past experience any idea how long it would be?

Right now I have over 100 broken sites because of this.

Thanks,

Jer

 

[breun]

Plesk does not use a 'special' version of apache, it uses the version distributed by the OS you run Plesk on.

 

[JeriR]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Is there anything that could cause a problem?

I asked the Server Admins what it would cost to have Apache updated. They replied that they wouldn't do it because they've only had problems when trying to update it.

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The first CSR just said, "Check apache.org"

http://search.apache.org/index.cgi?query=Plesk&submit=Search!&metaname=swishdefault&sort=swishrank

A lot of info there. ;-(

Jer

 

[breun]

The bug report you're linking to says the bug was fixed in CVS in december 2005. I'd think that that fix would be present in current PHP packages then. The report also says the bug was fixed in PHP, not in Apache, so I wouldn't look into upgrading Apache.

Also make sure you understand Red Hat's backporting practices, before you start looking at version numbers to see if a package has a (security) fix: http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html.

 

[JeriR]

Well my PHP version is Version 5.0.4, which came out 31-Mar-2005.
My Apache is 2.0.54-10.3.

It was fixed in PHP in December 2005. So the PHP version is the "broken"
version.

This is a server that was just configured last Friday. The Plesk Base
Packages are all up to date.

Time to ask if the admins if they can update PHP.

Thanks,

Jer

 

[breun]

Well my PHP version is Version 5.0.4, which came out 31-Mar-2005. My Apache is 2.0.54-10.3.

It was fixed in PHP in December 2005. So the PHP version is the "broken" version.

If you would have read the backporting article I sent you you can see you're not necessarily right, as Red Hat will have probably released a lot of different 5.0.4 packages.

But looking at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/, I see that the latest updated PHP 5.0.4 packages for FC4 (php-5.0.4-10.5) were released on 8 November 2005. So, that might indicate the packages won't have the fix.

Next stop: Bugzilla. Searching for "virtual include php" I found this open bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187253

It doesn't seem to be filed against FC4 though. You might want to add that the error exists on FC4 as well.

There are PHP 5.0.5 packages in updates-testing though (released 8 May 2006), you could try those to see if they fix your problem. According to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183948 the 5.0.5-2.1 packages had a problem with crashing using squirrelmail. The current packages in updates-testing are 5.0.5-2.2 however, so they might have that fixed as well.