Re: Installing How-To

At 2003-08-15 15:12 -1000, Rodney Davis wrote: >Does anyone know of a good howto on installing >php w/ GD and phplib etc on a Redhat box? I have just upgraded my (Mandrake) system by doing: - Upgrading from Mandrake 9.0 to 9.1 using the CD's that came with the UK Linux Format magazine of june 2003: www.linuxformat.co.uk - Then I installed the Apache Source version 2.0.45 from the CD-ROM that came with PHP Magazine 4.2003 www.php-mag.net and I compiled it, which went very smoothly - Then I installed the PHP Source version 4.3.2 from the same CD-ROM and compiled it. (Which takes more tinkering.) The complete process took a while, especially because I first tried to install from binaries, but it works very well now, including a GD that supports true color images etc. I'm not saying that I think that Mandrake is currently better than RedHat, but when I switched from Redhat (5.2 or 6?) to Mandrake 7.2 (?) some years ago it's installation process was even simpler than that of RedHat (on which it is based). In my experience it's a lot of work to upgrade all the libraries by hand, because they are much too interdependent and hard to locate on the WWW. Some tips: - Install Apache and PHP from source. - Reboot your computer from time to time between installing things and changing .ini and .conf files, just restarting Apache is sometimes not enough it seems. - Put a personal readme file in each directory, describing what you did to get things working. (This will help a lot next time.) BTW. There is a separate mailing list about installing PHP. You'd better ask there and look in it's archive etc. Greetings, Jaap