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[Daniel Convissor]

Hi David:

> Yesterday I applied patches and upgrades to my servers (Apache, MySQL, 
> PHP) and while that worked out nicely except that I yet again have to 
> recreate all the MySQL user accounts

Uh, "have" is the wrong word there. :)  You don't need to drop a database 
before upgrading.  You leave your old tables in place and MySQL provides 
upgrade scripts that implement changes between server versions.


> Can I recycle the ini/conf files for Apache and PHP going from version to 
> version?

Of course.

To simplify tracking and maintenance, in major systems I've worked on, 
the configuration files only contained a few lines.  Those lines adjusted 
the settings that we didn't like the default values built in to PHP, 
MySQL or Apache.

--Dan

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