Stuart Herbert | Gentoo

I’ve just done an upgrade of a web box from Apache 2.0.x to Apache 2.2.8, using Portage 2.1.4.4. Somehow, Apache got built after the modules (PHP, Subversion, etc etc) were upgraded - and not before. This left Apache completely unable to start, because the modules had been linked against Apache 2.0. Grrr.

Gentoo’s new Apache 2.2.8 default config also left behind the mod_ssl config file from Apache 2.0 (for some reason, instead of updating this file, Apache 2.2.8 comes with a mod_ssl file with a different name)

Also had problems with /usr/lib/apache2/logs not existing, and with Apache’s Listen directive being hidden away inside the default vhost, instead of in the main config file where it belongs.

All in all, took me a couple of hours to dig through everything and sort it out. It’s not like Gentoo’s Apache team to fsck things up as badly as this; I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come, or else I’ll fork these packages and maintain them myself.