The IUS team has created EL6 packages for Apache HTTP Server 2.4 [0].  We would 
like to invite anyone that is interested to help us test these packages.  You 
can install it with this command.

yum --enablerepo=ius-testing install httpd24u

We would like to get as much feedback as possible before moving these to the 
stable repos, even if it is just a simple "works for me" response.

There are a few important details to note about this package.

1. As always, carefully consider why you might wants to use the IUS package 
instead of the stock package.  We have addressed many of the common questions 
in our public FAQ [1].

2. It is possible that you may see installation conflicts with software that 
depends on httpd.  It is not a problem specific to httpd24u, but rather the IUS 
model, where multiple packages can provide the same package name [2].  What we 
have seen is that with a clean installation, installing a package that depends 
on httpd will try to resolve some dependencies with stock packages, and others 
with IUS packages that conflict with the stock packages.  We have corrected 
this where we can in IUS packages [3], but many stock and EPEL packages are 
still affected.  Luckily, it is easy to work around the issue: just install the 
preferred httpd first, then the application that depends on httpd.

3. The IUS mod_php packages (php54, php55u, php56u) will continue to only be 
built against stock httpd.  We will not be creating mod_php packages to work 
with httpd24u.  At first we considered this, but the benefit does not seem to 
be worth the complexity and added workload.  The feedback we have gotten so far 
is that it is now vastly preferred to use php-fpm with httpd 2.4.

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ius/+bug/1404930
[1] https://iuscommunity.org/pages/FAQs.html#is-ius-right-for-me
[2] 
https://iuscommunity.org/pages/FAQs.html#why-are-ius-packages-named-differently
[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ius/+bug/1404930/comments/5

Carl George
Rackspace GNU/Linux Engineer

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