The CIS Apache Benchmark recommends using the Apache binary provided by your vendor for most situations. The benefits of using the vendor supplied binaries include:
- Ease of installation as it will just work, straight out of the box.
- It is customized for your OS environment.
- It will be tested and have gone though QA procedures.
- Everything you need is likely to be included, probably including some third party modules. Many OS vendors ship Apache with mod_ssl and OpenSSL and PHP,
- mod_perl and ModSecurity for example.
- Your vendor will tell you about security issues in all those bits, you have to look in less places.
- Updates to fix security issues will be easy to apply. The vendor will have already verified the problem, checked the signature on the Apache download, worked out the impact and so on.
- You may be able to get the updates automatically, reducing the window of risk.
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