By default of Centos, you only can install Apache version 2.4.6, because Centos uses Security Backporting Practice to apply most recent fixes to older versions of a software package. As a result, it doesn’t mean that an older version provided by default repositories is vulnerable. But I need the latest version of Apache so that I can speed up my website.

There is a great custom repo created by these guys CodeIT It provides latest versions of web servers (Apache & Nginx).

Before setting up the CodeIT repository, you need to enable the EPEL. It satisfies some dependencies required by the CodeIT repo.

sudo yum install -y epel-release

cd /etc/yum.repos.d && wget https://repo.codeit.guru/codeit.el`rpm -q --qf "%{VERSION}" $(rpm -q --whatprovides redhat-release)`.repo

yum info httpd

yum install httpd

systemctl start httpd

Finally, tell systemd to start the Apache service automatically at boot.

systemctl enable httpd