PURPOSE

In some environments, security scanning software may indicate that versions of Apache and PHP shipped with Uptime Infrastructure Monitor may contain vulnerabilities. Although a future version of Uptime Infrastructure Monitor will include updated versions of these applications, you may wish to manually update them using these instructions.

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The following steps can be used to upgrade Apache and PHP for Uptime Infrastructure Monitor 7.7+.

• Only minor upgrades are supported.
• PHP can be upgraded to 5.4.x (not 5.5+)

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To manually update Apache and PHP on Linux

1. Stop

INSTRUCTIONS

1. stop Uptime Infrastructure Monitor web service.
   

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   /etc/init.d/uptime_httpd stop

2. back Back up apache directory.
   

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   cd /usr/local/uptime mv apache apache_orig

3. download Download and install re2c (PHP dependency).
   

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   cd /tmp

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1. wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/re2c-0.13.5-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm  rpm

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1. -ivh re2c-0.13.5-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

2. download Download and install install PCRE (Apache dependency).
   

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   cd /tmp

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1. wget ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.39.tar.bz2

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1. tar xvfj pcre-8.39.tar.bz2

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1. cd pcre-8.39

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1. ./configure make

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1. make install

2. install Install openssl devel package (Apache dependency), libxml, libxml2 devel package, mysql devel package (PHP dependency), and gcc (required for compiling).
   

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   yum install openssl-devel mysql-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel gcc

3. download Download and install Apache.
   

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   cd /tmp

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1. wget http://apachemirror.ovidiudan.com//httpd/httpd-2.4.23.tar.bz2 tar xvfj httpd-2.4.23.tar.bz2

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1. cd httpd-2.4.23/srclib

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1. wget http://apache.mirror.gtcomm.net//apr/apr-1.5.2.tar.bz2 tar xvfj apr-1.5.2.tar.bz2

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1. mv apr-1.5.2 apr

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1. wget http://apache.mirror.gtcomm.net//apr/apr-util-1.5.4.tar.bz2 tar xvfj apr-util-1.5.4.tar.bz2

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1. mv apr-util-1.5.4 apr-util cd ..

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1. ./configure -prefix=/usr/local/uptime/apache --with-mpm=worker --enable-so --enable-proxy --enable proxy-connect --enable-proxy-ftp --enable-proxy-http --enable-headers --enable-rewrite --enable-status – enable-info --enable-deflate --enable-mem-cache --enable-cache --enable-disk-cache --enable-expires – enable-mods-shared=all --enable-ssl --enable-cgi --enable-xsendfile

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1. make

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1. make install

2. download Download and install xsendfile Apache module.
   

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   cd /tmp

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1. wget https://tn123.org/mod_xsendfile/mod_xsendfile-0.12.tar.bz2

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1. --no-check-certificate tar xvfj mod_xsendfile-0.12.tar.bz2

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1. /usr/local/uptime/apache/bin/apxs -cia mod_xsendfile-0.12/mod_xsendfile.c

2. download Download and install php.
   

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   wget http://ca2.php.net/get/php-5.4.45.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror tar xvfj php-5.4.45.tar.bz2

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1. cd php-5.4.45

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1. ./configure -prefix=/usr/local/uptime/apache --with-apxs2=/usr/local/uptime/apache/bin/apxs --with mysql --with-libdir=lib64

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1. make

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1. make install

2. move Move Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Apache config files into new Apache directory.
   

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   cd /usr/local/uptime

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1. mv apache/conf apache/conf_orig cp -R apache_orig/conf apache

2. create Create tmp directory and set file ownerships.
   

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   mkdir apache/tmp

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1. chown -R uptime:uptime apache

2. (optional) if Optional. If PHP packages are required, use pear; examples below.
   

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   cd apache/bin

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1. ./pear install MDB2

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1. ./pear install pear/MDB2#mysql

2. start Start the Apache service and browse to the Uptime UI to verify the upgrade was successful.
   

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   /etc/init.d/uptime_httpd start

   
   
   1. in In the Uptime UI, click the down arrow beside the Help button in the top right corner, and select "About Uptime".
   2. Roughly in the middle of the page that pops up, you can verify the current version of Apache, PHP, and OpenSSL This completes the upgrade.

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