Re: UNinstalling PHP

On 14 Aug, William M. Quarles wrote: > I did a standard installation using the Gzipped tar file from www.php.net. > I did not use a package manager, as there was no RPM available from the > site, and I did not trust the RPMs available elsewhere. > > "Marcus D Hanwell" <linux@cryos.net> wrote in message > news:39976B4E.64BBDA36@cryos.net... >> "William M. Quarles" wrote: >> >> > I need to remove PHP 4.0.1pl2 from a linux system that was installed > using >> > the standard binary from www.php.net. How do I uninstall the program? > Can >> > it simply be deleted from certain directories? >> >> If it was a binary can't you use your package manager to delete > everything? I >> use Mandrake and it can do this using RPMdrake (or have I misunderstood > you?). >> >> HTH. >> >> Marcus D Hanwell >> http://www.cryos.net/ The downloads from the php site are generally source code, for *nix. Can you say whether you installed php as an Apache module or as a stand alone cgi? If it's the latter, you should find a file called php in your nominated cgi-bin directory. You can delete that, and the ini file which is most likely /usr/local/lib/php.ini (if you installed one). And of course the directory where you unpacked the distribution can be deleted. If it's an apache module, the story is a little more complex. Cheers -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA