RE: [PHP] Upgrading on RH ES3

Quoting Jeff McKeon <jmckeon@telaurus.com>:

-----Original Message----- From: Kristen G. Thorson [mailto:kthorson@allegroconsultants.com] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 14:50 To: Jeff McKeon Cc: php Subject: Re: [PHP] Upgrading on RH ES3 Jeff McKeon wrote:

I've got a server with RedHat ES3 running. It has PHP 4.3.2

installed

but for an application I want to install I need a min of

4.3.9. This

server also runs apache2.0. I can't find RPMs for RH ES3 so I downloaded the source for PHP4.4.1 figuring I would just compile myself. Problem is, the INSTALL file gives instructions based on the idea that you don't already have Apache2 or an earlier ver of PHP Installed already. Since

Apache2 was

installed via RPM originally the INSTALL instruction for PHP with Apache2 prob won't work. ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql It's the: --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs Switch that has got me scratching my head.

/usr/local/apache2/ doesn't

exist and I can't find apxs anywhere on the sys. Can I just configure with ./configure --with-mysql?? Thanks, Jeff

I believe you need the httpd-devel rpm to get apxs2. kgt

Interesting. Would the current ver of php run if I didn't have httpd-devel installed? What exactly does the switch --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs do?

If I'm not mistaken (and I very easily could be), apxs is used to create the php module for apache. Red Hat/Fedora provide a mod_php rpm, and your older version may have had that rpm installed; thus, apxs (and the httpd-devel rpm) was not needed on your system to build the module. Rick -- Rick Emery "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return" -- Leonardo Da Vinci