Running Rails 1.2 with Apache 2.2.4 and Mongrel on RHEL 4

Our new Dell servers came with a RedHat Enterprise 4 installation. This installation has some very old packages like Ruby 1.8.1, Apache 2.0.40 and MySQL 4.1.x.

This article gives a short description on how to upgrade the standard RHEL 4 installation to:

• Ruby 1.8.5;
• Rails 1.2.2;
• Apache 2.4.4;
• MySQL 5.0.27;
• PHP 5.2.1.

Part of this article is based on the blog entry: http://www.jasonlitka.com/2006/11/24/upgrading-apache-httpd-rhel4-centos4/