Re: apache 1.3 to 2.0 migration

[Graham Smith <graham@crazysquirrel.com>]

Almut Behrens wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:44:02AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 11:42, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> >
> > > I now have a need to switch to apache 2.0 (have started using python
> > > and cherrypy in my sites, the latter of which does have more
> > > functionality under apache 2.0).
> > >
> > > Are they any special gotcha's that I need to watch for in the
> > > migration process?  I plan to apt-get install apache 2.0 using port
> > > 8080 alongside the existing 1.3, which uses port 80.  Once I get the
> > > httpd.conf settings tweaked and all works o.k. on port 8080, I'll
> > > uninstall apache 1.3 and set 2.0 to listen on port 80 and be done.
> > >
> > > Will this work?
> >
> > I think that'll work fine, yes.  Apache 2 splits its config into separate 
> > files, in /etc/apache2/modules-{enabled,available} 
> > and /etc/apache2/sites-{enabled,available}.
>
>
> In addition, be sure to skim over the general (not debian-specific)
> changes documented in
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/upgrading.html
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/new_features_2_0.html
>
> Otherwise, I'd just migrate (alongside a working 1.3 install) to find
> out what does no longer work...  Depending on how complex your config
> is, a few minor tweaks might be needed.  In that case, have a look at
> the docs specific to the module that the error seems to be related
> to... (e.g. things like the directive SuexecUserGroup for mod_suexec
> replacing User/Group directives in virtual host sections).
>
> Cheers,
> Almut

I got caught out by register_globals it is set to on in the default php.ini
for Apache 1.3 but off in the default php.ini for Apache 2

you might also need to run

dpkg-reconfigure php4-pgsql php4-mysql

to make things like phpbb work again.