Red Hat

hello everyone.

let me start by stating I am relatively new to Linux and do not consider myself to be a very professional Linux administrator.

I have a red-hat 6.2 server used as a web server in a closed network (no internet access). however we do have a repository server with many applications (I do NOT manage the repository server, only the web server)

I am currently trying to upgrade the Apache on the server from 2.2 to 2.4, and I find it surprisingly difficult.

first I tried of course to use the repository server.

on the repository server I found the packages of apache-httpd, though they were named httpd24-httpd, httpd24-apr and etc.
I went on to install the packages and found out that this did not update the apache already on the server, but instead installed a new apache on the server. I found that I had two httpd services, and the chkconfig command showed me to have httpd and httpd24-httpd starting up. I later realized the new installation was installed in some weird place under /opt/..(something) directory, while the older version was under /user/sbin/

I didn't find any useful help on Google, only instructions on how to install\upgrade Apache from a tar.gz file. so since I have that file as well, I uninstalled the httpd24 and tried to upgrade from the tar.gz file.

here everything went smoothly (I extracted everything from the archive and ran the configure file successfully), until I tried running 'make' where I received the following error:

Code:

libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libexpat.la' or unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libexpat.la'

I have the libtool installed but the file libexpact.la does not exist (I do have other files in that directory though).

At some point I also finally figured out that the different files of Apache (and almost all the applications on the server) are spread at different directories: /usr/sbin/httpd , /usr/lib64/httpd , and -/usr/include/httpd.

I am stuck with no success in this seemly simple task with no solution in the horizon.

I would very much appreciate help in:
Thanks in advance for the help!