184: You need to test Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a replacement for your current RHL 9 installed Web server. But you do not want to lose the current RHL 9 Web setup just yet. You just want to test…

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184: You need to test Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a replacement for your current RHL 9 installed Web server. But you do not want to lose the current RHL 9 Web setup just yet. You just want to test RHEL 5 using the Web pages and CGI scripts to see if they will work. What can you do? (Note: Fresh installations from Red Hat Linux to RHEL 5 are recommended.)

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Answers: Scenario 1: Buy a new disk and add it to the system. Then do a custom install to create a new installation of RHEL to partitions on the new disk, adding an entry to /boot/grub/grub.conf to provide a boot option to both versions of Linux. Scenario 2: No space on server. Hmm... You've got to get creative and either find a test computer on which you can do the test install or back up everything on the main server after taking it off line. Perform a new installation of RHEL. Copy your httpd.conf configuration file and see how it works. If it fails, you can restore everything back to the way it was. Note: Test your backups first before overwriting an existing operating system.

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#Apache#web server migration#RHEL upgrade#CGI

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