diff --git a/root/etc/httpd/state b/root/etc/httpd/state
deleted file mode 120000
index b16b28b..0000000
--- a/root/etc/httpd/state
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../var/state/httpd
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/root/var/state/httpd/.gitignore b/root/var/state/httpd/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/smeserver-apache.spec b/smeserver-apache.spec
index e64446f..7bfc5e7 100644
--- a/smeserver-apache.spec
+++ b/smeserver-apache.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Summary: smeserver server and gateway - apache module
 %define name smeserver-apache
 Name: %{name}
 %define version 11.0.0
-%define release 3
+%define release 4
 Version: %{version}
 Release: %{release}%{?dist}
 License: GPL
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ if [ $1 -gt 1 ] ; then
 fi
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 26 2024 Jean-Philippe Pialasse <jpp@koozali.org> 11.0.0-4.sme
+- remove conflicting /etc/httpd/state 
+
 * Mon Mar 25 2024 Jean-Philippe Pialasse <jpp@koozali.org> 11.0.0-3.sme
 - conflict with smeserver-proxy