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. 

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+).

To manually update Apache and PHP on Linux

  1. Stop Uptime Infrastructure Monitor web service.
    /etc/init.d/uptime_httpd stop
  2. Back up apache directory.
    cd /usr/local/uptime 
mv apache apache_orig
  3. Download and install re2c (PHP dependency).
    cd /tmp
wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/re2c-0.13.5-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm 
rpm -ivh re2c-0.13.5-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
  4. Download and install install PCRE (Apache dependency).
    cd /tmp
wget ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.39.tar.bz2 
tar xvfj pcre-8.39.tar.bz2
cd pcre-8.39
./configure 
make
make install
  5. Install openssl devel package (Apache dependency), libxml, libxml2 devel package, mysql devel package (PHP dependency), and gcc (required for compiling).
    yum install openssl-devel mysql-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel gcc
  6. Download and install Apache.
    cd /tmp
wget http://apachemirror.ovidiudan.com//httpd/httpd-2.4.23.tar.bz2 
tar xvfj httpd-2.4.23.tar.bz2
cd httpd-2.4.23/srclib
wget http://apache.mirror.gtcomm.net//apr/apr-1.5.2.tar.bz2 
tar xvfj apr-1.5.2.tar.bz2
mv apr-1.5.2 apr
wget http://apache.mirror.gtcomm.net//apr/apr-util-1.5.4.tar.bz2 
tar xvfj apr-util-1.5.4.tar.bz2
mv apr-util-1.5.4 apr-util 
cd ..
./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
make
make install
  7. Download and install xsendfile Apache module.
    cd /tmp
wget https://tn123.org/mod_xsendfile/mod_xsendfile-0.12.tar.bz2 --no-check-certificate 
tar xvfj mod_xsendfile-0.12.tar.bz2
/usr/local/uptime/apache/bin/apxs -cia mod_xsendfile-0.12/mod_xsendfile.c
  8. Download and install php.
    wget http://ca2.php.net/get/php-5.4.45.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror tar xvfj php-5.4.45.tar.bz2
cd php-5.4.45
./configure -prefix=/usr/local/uptime/apache --with-apxs2=/usr/local/uptime/apache/bin/apxs --with mysql --with-libdir=lib64
make
make install
  9. Move Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Apache config files into new Apache directory.
    cd /usr/local/uptime
mv apache/conf apache/conf_orig 
cp -R apache_orig/conf apache
  10. Create tmp directory and set file ownerships.
    mkdir apache/tmp
chown -R uptime:uptime apache
  11. Optional. If PHP packages are required, use pear; examples below.
    cd apache/bin
./pear install MDB2
./pear install pear/MDB2#mysql
  12. Start the Apache service and browse to the Uptime UI to verify the upgrade was successful.
    /etc/init.d/uptime_httpd start

    1. 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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