Redhat secure server - Nov 1998 - Re: RedHat Linux upgrade from Ver 5.1 to 5.2. (Secure Web Server problem)

On Fri, 27 Nov 1998 23:33:17 -0500, Michael Steinhart wrote:
>I did replace the  httpd.conf  with the old  httpd.conf.rpmsave  but it 
>appears that the install replaced the other components of the Secure 
>Web Server as well.  So I tried to reinstall the Secure Web Server but it 
>detected the earlier install and will not over wright it.
>
>Any clue as to how to reinstall the Secure Web Server. (I did RTFM but 
>there is not a clue in there)
I certainly would expect that removing the non-secure and installing
the secure would fix it:

    rpm --erase apache
    rpm --install -v --hash apache-ssl

I''d love to see the output of these two commands if you continue to
have trouble.  Linux is not Windows junk -- installs/uninstalls are
clean and safe, assuming an RPM package author does his job right.

-Jeff Rush

Thank you for your help

I attempted to manually un-install the Secure Web Server by:
rpm -e secureweb-2.0-1libc6.i386.rpm
Rpm returned : package secureweb-2.0-1libc6.i386.rpm not installed.

So I tryed:
rpm -ivh secureweb-2.0-1libc6.i386.rpm
And rpm returned : packae secureweb-2.0-1libc6.i386.rpm is already installed.

So after geting sum sleep I decided to try sumthing new.  From X I used the 
package installer to remove secureweb-2.0-1libc6. IT WORKED! I was then able to 
install just the Secure Web Server and IT WORKED also. All that was left was to 
replace the new  “httpd.conf” my old one and everything worked as it did befor.

Thank You
______________________________________________________________

Michael Steinhart                  OPCenter
mike@opcenter.net                  PMH Network Services, Inc.
http://www.opcenter.net            284 Ackerman Ave
                                   Emerson, NJ 07630

> rpm --erase apache
> rpm --install -v --hash apache-ssl
> .. Linux is not Windows junk -- installs/uninstalls are clean and safe, ..
Won''t this trash your /home/httpd/html/index.html and
/etc/httpd/*.conf?  i
wish/hope it wouldn''t/doesn''t.

james

On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Michael Steinhart wrote:
> Thank you for your help
> 
> I attempted to manually un-install the Secure Web Server by: rpm -e
> secureweb-2.0-1libc6.i386.rpm Rpm returned : package
> secureweb-2.0-1libc6.i386.rpm not installed.
Don''t give the full path to the RPM.  Just give the name of the
package.

rpm -e secureweb.

Optionally, also specify the name and/or release, but not the architecture
and .rpm extension.

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 -Preston Brown
  Red Hat Software, Inc.
  pbrown@redhat.com

On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, James E Jurach Jr. wrote:
> > rpm --erase apache
> > rpm --install -v --hash apache-ssl
> > .. Linux is not Windows junk -- installs/uninstalls are clean and
safe, ..
> 
> Won''t this trash your /home/httpd/html/index.html and
/etc/httpd/*.conf?  i
> wish/hope it wouldn''t/doesn''t.
If you have modified these files, they will be saved.

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  Preston Brown          
  Red Hat Software, Inc. 
  pbrown@redhat.com