Upgrade Apache 2.4.18 to 2.4.26 or higher on Ubuntu 16.04.7

Question

I am trying to upgrade Apache2 to a version higher than 2.4.26 so that I can enable HTTP/2. I have run these commands with no joy:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/apache2
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt dist-upgrade

I have Ubuntu ESM. Ubuntu 16.04.7

Answer 1

Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial reached End of Standard Support in April 2021 and all the packages for this version of Ubuntu were removed from ppa:ondrej/apache2 by its maintainer.

Source: https://github.com/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues/1567

Answer 2

Some alternatives:

• Downloading the source code from https://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi and installing in a different path such as /opt/apache2 - there could be a problem with dependencies such as OpenSSL ?
• Running a Ubuntu 18.04/20.04/22.04 container with apache2 inside your Ubuntu 16.04 - not sure if docker is available in 16.04 ESM ?
• My recommendation, do-release-upgrade and move to Ubuntu 18.04 ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BionicUpgrades ). You will get TLS 1.3 as an extra.

Answer 3

Try adding these 2 lines to /etc/apt/sources.list

1. deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/apache2/ubuntu xenial main
2. deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/apache2/ubuntu xenial main

and then

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt dist-upgrade

Answer 4

Have you run:

sudo apt install apache2

Then restart Apache.