RedHat 8.0 Upgrade Thoughts

[Kevin Brown]

Jeffrey Pyne wrote:
> I upgraded my home RedHat 7.3 machine to RedHat 8.0 about a week ago.  This
> is the first time I've tried upgrading instead of re-installing since my
> RedHat 4.2 -> 5.0 upgrade attempt went so poorly several years ago.  This
> time the upgrade went almost perfectly.  I use my machine to read email
> (Evolution), burn CDs (cdrdao, xcdroast, gtoaster), surf the web (Mozilla),
> host a few dynamic web sites (Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl DBI), listen to MP3s
> (XMMS), download and burn live music in SHN and FLAC format (gftp,
> BitTorrent, shorten, flac), do some web programming (Komodo), download
> pictures from my digital camera (USB mass storage driver), edit said
> pictures (Gimp), and share files with the Windows and Solaris computers on
> my network (samba, NFS).  I use KDE as my windowing environment.  After the
> upgrade, all of this stuff worked with two minor exceptions:  
> 
> 1) I had to download and install an MP3 plugin for XMMS.  This is a known
> issue due to licensing issues with MP3.  I found a link to an RPM of the
> plugin on the XMMS web site, so fixing this took about 10 seconds.
> 
> 2) Before the upgrade, I was using Apache 1.3.27.  As part of the upgrade,
> Apache was upgraded to 2.0.40.  There were some 1.3-specific directives in
> my /etc/httpd/httpd.conf that caused Apache to not start.  I simply had to
> copy my customizations (e.g. Virtual Server configuration) into
> /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.rpmnew, and then 'mv /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.rpmnew
> /etc/httpd/httpd.conf'.  After that Apache started up just fine and all of
> my virtual (name-based) domains work like a champ.  Fixing this took about a
> minute.
> 
> Everything else worked perfectly after the upgrade.  My Evolution mail was
> still there, my Mozilla settings were intact, my KDE customizations were
> still there, my MySQL databases still worked, my Samba and NFS shares still
> functioned, sound, X, and networking all still worked, etc., etc.  The new
> Mozilla and Evolution are purty, as are the fonts and icons in KDE3.  I was
> extremely impressed with how smoothly the upgrade went.  'Til now I have
> been leery of x.0 releases from RedHat, and of upgrading in general, but
> this experience has changed my mind.

How well is php working with Apache?  Last I heard, php4 didn't work very well 
with apache 2.x.