total newbie, this is killing me.

[Anon]

how do i get the php3 to access mysql. at first I was using rpms....then i find there is a problem with that. so i did tarballs thing. everything seem to work fine on the make and install. i used --with-mysql during the ./configure what else do i check?

[Anon]

Yeah unfortunately, this was asked a billion times but all the data was lost so you can't search for your answer.

I would first remove all your mysql / apache / php RPMs, then download and install each from source using the instructions in the manual..

First install mysql using a simple

./configure
make
make install

Then refer to the manual on this site for installation instructions for apache/php.

[Anon]

ok this is going to sound stupid. and i've done it before. but i can't figure out how to unistall the rpms. were is the list located?

[Anon]

Yeah, it's not exactly intuitive.

rpm -qa | grep apache

rpm -e apache-xxx-xxx

And so on....

[Anon]

finally got it going. I had to just get php4 rpm and all the new stuff. and it worked....either way i learned along the way. now its just php and me from here on out. thank for the help