Linux Headache installation

ridge321

i have been trying to install PHP for the past three weeks and i have been getting some annoying errors.Firstly i have Red hat 9.0 i have dowloaded the tar PHP-4.0 i run ./configure and that goes fine but when i try to run make i get "no file or target source" error .am i to run the configure along with the make and make install . eg ./ configure && make && make install will this work ?
please if this is the way to install it why isnt it in the installation help file ?

tsinka

Hi,

do you want to compile php for usage with apache (if yes, which apache version) ? Which php version did you download ? Please post the file config.log (configure creates that file in the source directory) as attachment (rename it to .txt).

Thomas

ridge321

I have succesfully installed PHP but my problem i think is the various configuration directories when i try to run "phpinfo();" i get a blenk screen i copied the ini file i have made changes in httpd.conf file ......question how can i tell if php was installed succesfully ....and how do i configure php with apache -which was shipped with red hat 9.0...i am a bit confused at this stage..i am sorry i cant post my config file its on my home machine and i am at work

tsinka

Which configure options did you use ?

Thomas

ridge321

I didn't use any configuration options. i tried with mysql support but i get a error message when i tried this.

tsinka

Ok,

about apache:

If you want to compile PHP for usage with the installed apache you need to add the following configure option:

apache 1.x: --with-apxs=/path/to/apxs
apache 2.x: --with-apxs2=/path/to/apxs

You wrote that you got an error regarding MySQL. Did you install the mysql-devel rpm package ? That package contains some libraries and headers that you need if you want to compile php with MySQL support from sources.

Which php version do you want to install ?

Thomas

ridge321

Php verision is 4.0.3.5

i have search my computer for apxs but i cant locte it ...what exactly is apxs ...i have tried whereis and locate but i cant locate it ..is there another way to find this file...i am using apache 2.0

disregard the mysql error.

bear with me i am a eager newbie

tsinka

Ok,

find the httpd executable of your apache 2 installation and execute the following command

/path/to/httpd -l

If the output doesn't contain something like

mod_so.c

then you're some kind of lost because that would mean that you need to recompile Apache.

Wait ... do you use the Apache that comes with RedHat 9.0 ? In that case you might need to install the apache-devel package in order to get the apxs binary. I think that the RedHat Apache comes with so support.

Thomas

ridge321

I removed the orginal apache and installed apache 2.0x and i am good now I can configure php with apxs now

thanks much for the advice