Compiling php for MySQL and Apache 2 Newbie

Hello Everyone, I'm still having problems compiling the latest version of PHP. I have several issues - The apache 2 that was installed was from a Red Hat package. From what I can tell it is configured in a manner that is similar to the with-apxs2filter. The configuration file that point to this kind of installation is already configured in apache. However there is no perl script apxs of any kind. My question is can somebody tell me how to set up the configure to include apache 2 and MySQL without the apxs? When I do a whereis mysql I get the following: mysql: /usr/bin/mysql /usr/lib/mysql /usr/include/mysql /usr/share/mysql /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz When I do a whereis httpd (The RH distro uses httpd instead of apachectl BUT it is still there as well): httpd: /usr/sbin/httpd /etc/httpd /usr/lib/httpd /usr/share/man/man8/httpd.8.gz Before I was getting function not defined when I called the mysql_connect function, now the page is blank. I can still run php scripts that do not interact with a database with no problems. Any help is appreciated, Thanks James