Today I upgraded Java from 1.6 to 1.7 on a CentOS (RHEL) 6 Linux server, and ran into a small issue. Typically when I install java on linux I use the RPM packages, this allows you to run multiple versions of Java incase you need to roll back to a prior version.

This blog entry shows the steps used to compile and build apache2 on linux. The example uses Apache 2.0.46 on Redhat 8 using a bash shell, you will need gcc installed. You can find Apache's install instructions here

Downlaod the latest tar.gz file for apache2