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I have an application that runs Apache as its web front end, but hey have not yet patched it (may not at all). Could i just download the latest Apache, extract the files, and replace the BIN directory and leave the CONF files?

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Theoretically it’s possible but I wouldn’t recommend it. Your platform may depend on deprecated components which are removed / swapped out in later builds. You’ll be setting yourself up for a lot of headache In terms of diagnosing if it’s not something you’ve developed from the ground up. Better wait for the manufacturer to release a supported version. If they no longer support it - shoot them an email to at least ask for guidance on what to look out for

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If you want to go down this road, the basic answer to your question is it “It depends”. And mainly for Apache itself, it depends on what version of apache you currently have and how close it is to current and latest version of apache 2.4. Not sure this is there on Windows, but you can get the version number and details from the output of httpd -V.

The difficulty and difference is mainly about whether you are on 2.2, 2.3 or 2.4. I know for certain if you are coming up to 2.4, you are going to have some issues to figure out in the configuration files because some of the commonly used things such as Allow/Deny have changed.

I’d start here: Upgrading to 2.4 from 2.2 - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4

Again, if you have it in Windows, the command “service httpd configtest” is quite useful to check the syntax of your configuration files. When that reports things are okay, you can tell apache to reload with the command “service httpd reload” or “service httpd restart” to restart. The command “service httpd start” is how you can start should you crash it. If you don’t have the service command, investigate apachectl and its arguments. Also, the name of the httpd daemon is different in some environments such as CentOS 7 when you’ve upgraded to 2.4 via the alternate scl streams. There it is called httpd24-httpd.

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Theoretically it’s possible but I wouldn’t recommend it. Your platform may depend on deprecated components which are removed / swapped out in later builds. You’ll be setting yourself up for a lot of headache In terms of diagnosing if it’s not something you’ve developed from the ground up. Better wait for the manufacturer to release a supported version. If they no longer support it - shoot them an email to at least ask for guidance on what to look out for https;//oyeball.com