RE: [PHP] Installing PHP

Hey there, I have had drama compiling PHP4 under RedHat 6.2, i found that using the RPM's(in general) is painful since there is little documetation specific to RedHat. I got the .tar.gz source versions but still had some trouble i eventually got round these.I assume that you got and error saying that "your apxs script was broken or Perl needs to be reinstalled. Best of gteetionmg all the lates version of PHP/Apache. If you use mysql let PHP compile with default support (leave out --with-mysql=/path/to/mysql). make sure you point to the correct apxs script, in your apache/bin. I found it easier to remove the RPM version of apache and intsall it from source although RPM may be a good idea RedHat have very strange ways of arranging where applications are stored int he filesystem so much so that i gave up with default apache install and downloaded source. hope this helps Cheers Steven ******************************* Steven Michael Holloway Web Programmer Port Douglas Internet Services Cairns Australia steven@pdis.com.au ******************************* -----Original Message----- From: Phil Labonte [mailto:plabonte@home.com] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 6:48 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Installing PHP Hi, I am not new to Linux but I cannot seem to be able to figure out how to install PHP... I am using RedHat 7.0 and I used the PHP RPM to install PHP, and that did not work. Then I tried to install it using the binaries and I keep getting an error with apxs script. I redownloaded Perl and still it would not work. Please can someone tell me if there is a way to install PHP or is there something that I need to do to get it to work...? This is the code I used to to test it <html> <head> <title>Example</title> </head> <body> <?php echo "Hi, I'm a PHP script!"; ?> </body> </html> I saved the file as test.php and test.html The result would be a blank page.... Please any help would be appreciated.... Thanks