php config error: invalid dir

bubba5

I have installed MySQL and Apache. I am now trying to install PHP 4.0. When I try to configure it, I get the error:

Configure: error: Invalid Apache directory - unable to find httpd.h under /usr/local/include/apache

This is exactly the location of the httpd.h file. I have tried to use every other apache directory i have, but they all give me the same error with whichever directory i had in the config line.

Any advise?

Anon

Did you install Apache from a binary rpm package?

If that was your case, did you install the apache-devel.version.i386 too?

I think this is the problem. File httpd.h is in the developing package for apache.

If the case is you installed Apache from a suorce tarball, did you configure the PHP build with the --with-apache=.../apache_x.x.xx ?

Jesús M. Fernández-Gallardo
Madrid
SPAIN

Anon

I am actually running Apache on FreeBSD and installed their version from the install disk.

That's interesting about the developer's version. I didn't know that.

I think it is back to the drawing board for me. I will gather the source code and re-install it all.

Wish me luck!

Anon

ktwiley wrote:

I have installed MySQL and Apache. I am now trying to install PHP 4.0. When I try to configure it, I get the error:

Configure: error: Invalid Apache directory - unable to find httpd.h under /usr/local/include/apache

Hi Kathy,
the path you should give --with-apache is the path to the source files of apache - not the path to where you installed apache.

For me the source is located in /usr/src/apache_1.3.20.

And the apache installation is in /usr/local/etc/apache_1.3.20

Cheers,
Flemming

Anon

Just try to put absolute path to your configure command. Like this:

./configure --with-apache=/usr/src/apache_1.3.22

Is knowed some bugs with relative paths.

Good luck !

David.
Catalonia