Re: HOWTO: Install PHP on Fedora Core / Redhat

"John Swartzentruber" <jswartzen@despammed.com> wrote in message news:20041004011557.76402.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > On 10/3/2004 4:02 PM Matthew Fonda wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I noticed that quite a few people were having a hard time installing PHP > > on Fedora Core or Redhat, so I put together a little tutorial explaining > > how to do it. Hope it helps :D > > http://mfonda.dotgeek.org/fcrh.php > > I'm not complaining about any tutorials, but this doesn't quite fit > with my experience. I installed FC2 (not an upgrade). I then ran > phpinfo() to get the configure options for the installed PHP. I used > those options to configure PHP5. After running make and make install, > I edited "/etc/httpd/conf.d/php.ini" to change the LoadModule line. does your installation have apxs? mine doesn't even though phpinfo says that (the fedora installed) php4 was configured with it. > > I believe I also needed to remove the domxml.ini file from /etc/php.d. > I may have also needed to more some other files around. > > My point isn't to provide another tutorial, but to say that a PHP and > linux newbie (me) can install PHP5 without also installing Apache. I > am inexperienced with Apache and PHP, so I'm not claiming it is > *better* not to re-install Apache, just that it isn't necessary under FC2.