Deploying Passenger on Fasthosts Centos Dedicated Server

[rob]

Hi,

I hit a snag installing Passenger onto a Fasthosts (large uk hosting
company) dedicated server (Centos OS).

The problem is the http-devel won't install because fasthosts have a
custom compiled version of httpd installed (to allow integration with
their Matrix control panel I believe. This means httpd-devel
complains that the required version of httpd is missing.

I spoke to Fasthosts and they could only suggest removing their
version of httpd if I wish, and install a standard copy, but this
means breaking their Matrix control panel (and effectively going
unsupported for pretty much everything on the machine).

So I have a choice of Passenger vs the Fasthosts Matrix Control Panel.

I've got a VM Server installed on the box so my current plan is to use
that which frees me to hack the box as I want and still keep the
control panel for basic / simple sites. I've got a Rails stack on the
VM working OK, but I'm not over familiar with the maintenance of the
VM's themselves so it's not a perfect option either.

But could anyone advise if there is a way to work around the httpd-
devel dependency problem ie could I somehow get Passenger installed
without changing the version of httpd installed on the machine?

Many thanks

Rob

[Jam]

Do Fasthosts provide the source for the custom httpd installation? If
they provide the source, you should be able to compile Passenger
against that source.

James