Re: General -Installing PHP on YellowDog Linux

on 9/12/2000 1:04 AM, Gawain Reifsnyder at gawain@guitar.net wrote: > I'd like to install PHP as an apache module, and I'm scouring the > docs and coming up with some questions... > > I've just downloaded 4.0.2 but haven't installed it yet. I read in an > earlier post that YDL doesn't come with a version of php that can > recognize mySQL. > > If I upgrade, do I have to download and recompile and reconfigure > apache too, or can I install it over my existing php3 installation? > > And.. If so, the docs mention the path to apache, but I'm not sure > what that is on my YDL system. Having installed PHP/MySQl/Apache on YDL systems here, I can say it's not a piece of cake, but it's not horrid either. Do you already have MySQL installed? We found it necessary to download the source code tarballs for all three packages first. First configure and install MySQL (follow the directions at www.mysql.net), configure and install PHP (www.php.net), and lastly configure and install Apache (www.apache.org). As far as the path is concerned, we downloaded the packages to the root folder, so we knew where they were. The programs don't actually run from there, just compiled there. When you upgrade PHP, you only need to reconfigure and install PHP and Apache. HTH Mark -- Mark Garrett Web Developer/Info Sys Admin Nucleus Communications, Inc. http://www.nucleusinc.com/ Atlanta, GA (770) 805-0460