[NBLUG/talk] Installing Apache from script

[Todd Cary]

As I play around with making custom php modules and read the "mail", it 
apparent that one is really better off installing Apache and PHP by 
script (help me if I am using an incorrect term); install from a 
tarball.  Now please jump in set me straight if this is the wrong 
approach, but this is what some have told me:

Get a stable core Linux version (I started with Red Hat, so I have 
stayed with RH) e.g. RH 9 or FC 3 *BUT* do not use the rpm's for Apache 
or PHP.  Instead install your own.

At this point I do have FC 3 installed and it does have Apache 2.0 
installed when I put FC 3 on my playbox.  With that in mind, I have 
downloaded Apache 2.0.54 and used this configuration:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --enable-module=so

Now it has been configured, made and installed.  The question is where 
do I replace the current "httpd" with a symbolic link to the new httpd?

Any sugestions about this approach is grealy appreciated...

Todd