Versions upgrade for Red Hat 6 and 5

Hello,
Could you please provide us with information on whether the lastest versions of services such as httpd, php and mysql can be installed on Red Hat 5?
At first we thought it was the OS version that limited the upgrade to the latest versions, but then the same thing happened with Red Hat 6..

We tried to install httpd 2.4 using this guide http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/04/08/apache-with-various-php-versions-using-scl/ , but it got installed in /opt/rh/httpd24/root/etc instead of /etc and now we are unable to add the ssl module, as we are rather accustomed to the old version of apache.

So the question is, could you provide us with a foolproof guaranteed guide to install a LAMP server with the latest stable versions?

Thank you.