Hello! I have a site with a couple of thousands of uniques per day, and I have my own server using Win 2008 and apache 2.2.8. I've recently had some problems with apache, it gets some kind of error, and ends up in a loop of restaring itself, and the website is the not reachable. I've been reading a lot on this board about this error, and I belive it will be taken care of if I update apache to 2.2.15. A friend of mine have been doing all the installations before, but he will not be available in a couple of months, so I'll have to do this myself. I have 4 domains on the server, I have 2 different IPs on the server (1 goes for one domain, and the other 3 domains share the other IP). He have done some changes to the httpd.conf, so I would like to keep those if possible. Is it possible to just save the \conf\ and the \php\ directories in my current apache installation, then uninstall apache to install it again and then replace the new \conf\ and \php\ with my old ones, and everything will work? Or are there some better/easier way to upgrade apache in? I'm a total newbie with this, so if anyone feels like answering me, please don't assume I know anything about apache! Thanks in advance!
If you have windows - you can simply replace all needed binary files, however apache is faster at unix box, I think
So if I install the newest version on Apache on my local machine (using windows as well), I should just take all the files from the \bin\ folder from my own machine and upload and replace to the \bin\ on my server, and I have the newest version of Apache?
You probably want to download last apache installer directly to your server and run it there so it will replace existing files, should work just fine