How do I update an existing Apache v1 installation?

[znooq]

Hello everyone.

I've recently had the "honour" to take care of our webserver (I'm not very much into this stuff, but I'm fiddling around with computers since the mid-80ies) since we've been hit by a massive amount of traffic and the guys who were originally administrating the machine are no longer in our company.

Thanks to you (particularly the participants of the thread [webmasterworld.com...] I found out that the server was configured as an open proxy (yes, *ouch*), and now I feel I have to look at that thing a bit closer.

Our server is running Apache 1.3.9 on a Windows 2000 Server system. I understand that Apache v2 is a different thing, so I thought I'd go for v1.3.33 to have the last stable v1 release at least.

Question is how do I do that? I searched the apache.org site and the forums here, maybe I didn't use the right search keys though.

So, how do I update the existing v1.3.9 installation to v1.3.33 with the MSI installation files? Does the MSI installation preserve the old configurations? What do I need to take care of? Can I do that myself at all, or do I need the help of an expert?

Thank you for your comments.

[kalos]

The installer script will generally not overwrite your conf files but will update any binary files. If you are in doubt, as I always was, then just copy them to the desktop and replace them after the installation. From a DOS prompt type (in the apcache/bin directory): "apache -t" to test that your configuration is still working properly. All in all the install and test should take about five minutes even on a slow machine.

I've run both the 1.3.x and 2.x trees on Windows boxes and had no problem updating either in said manner. The only caveat to that is if you're using mod_perl or php, you'll need to update the dll files for your version sometimes.

[znooq]

OK, I tried that - and failed. :-)

The biggest problem are the modules - the currently running v1.3.9 version of Apache uses modules in the style of "ApacheModuleProxy.dll" (for example), while version 1.3.33 uses "mod_proxy.so" (to stay with the example, which is no problem).

I'll be running into two problems here:

- ColdFusion... we're using version 4.5 which is pretty old by now, and we have the "ApacheModuleColdFusion.dll".

Is there a "new style" Apache mod (.so) for that version available? I've searched modules.apache.org and couldn't find anything.

- SSL... (I don't even have the slightest idea about it, gotta look into it further before I make any comments, any clues & hints would be welcome)

Thanks.