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Apache 2.2 on Morgins

2 March, 2008 (11:53) | Colo, Personal | By: Al

I upgraded Apache from 2.0 to 2.2 on Morgins this morning. Gentoo seem to try and make this process as difficult as possible :( The script on the upgrade page, which makes the APACHE_OPTIONS line for make.conf, cocks up and puts dashes instead of underscores, and also misses some basic options you will want, like auth_basic. In the end I got it sorted, though not after spending a good 15 mins wondering why all pages produced an error 403… seems I needed a <Directory /> Allow from all</Directory> directive that I had never had. Why this is needed in 2.2 and not in 2.0 I know not. Odd.

All seems to be working fine now, but if you see anything odd/wrong, please let me know.