> > Hello, I've been plagued by intermittent apache2 seg faults during
> > high traffic for quite some time.  From what I've read it sounds like
> > a mod_perl problem.  I can't update mod_perl > 1.99.11 (M~) without
> > using apache2 ~x86 and its new layout.
> >
> > Comment #13 from bug #77551 sounds promising:
> >
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77551
> >
> > "I haven't tried the patch here yet, but mod_perl-1.99.17-r1 has been
> > working fine for me so far with apache-2.0.53 (after moving files to
> > the appropriate places), so I'm not sure why it's masked.  I did get
> > segfaults with mod_perl-1.99.11."
> >
> > Does anyone have any tips or info on moving to the ~x86 apache2 layout
> > so I can update mod_perl > 1.99.11?
> 
> You should make a backup of /etc/apache2 and delete it prior to updating,
> otherwise the new config layout will give you a hard time finding out, which
> file belongs to the new installation and which does not.
> 
> Then you need to redo your complete configuration. That'll be the hardest
> taks of all. Most complicated part is to merge your settings from
> apache.conf and commonapache.conf into httpd.conf, you should not simply
> concat both and replace httpd.conf with it. As for modules (like SSL) there
> has not much changed, AFAIK it's just the installationpath of the .so-file.
> 
> I recommend using diff on the modules' config-files, just to be sure.
> 
> I'm running apache-2.0.52-r3 just fine for weeks now and I wonder why it
> isn't stable yet... ;-)
> 
> HTH, regards
> Felix

Thanks Felix.  I'm having some SSL trouble but I wanted to point this
out for anyone else looking to update their apache2 layout:

http://dev.gentoo.org/~vericgar/doc/apache-package-refresh.html

- Grant

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