Re: Downloading PHP4

/me is new to the list, so apologies if i break any rules... Martin Halford spake thusly... : I'm on a steep learning curve setting up a remote Cobalt RaQ3 Linux/Apache : web server as root user. : mySQL was pre-installed and I now have it up and running across telnet. i've got a similar setup... this wasn't with uk2.net by any chance??? i've had mine about 2-or-3 weeks :] i'll assume you're with uk2.net or something similar... : I now want to download and install PHP4 and install it on the server, for : which I have comprehensive instructions from WebmasterBase. Unfortunately : these assume the source code has already been downloaded! : My problem is how to get the source code of the php.net site and on to the : server. I assume this should be done using ftp? well, there are a couple options. personally, i simply downloaded the source onto my home pc, then uploaded it onto the raq3... you should be able to ftp into your raq3 using any standard ftp program. first, you _may_ need to activate the ftp daemon. i'm not sure if this is on by default. on the raq3, it's an option on the administrator menu. for username, use either "root" or "admin", and whatever password you've chosen. the other option is running an ftp client on the raq3, but i'm not sure if there's one there already. usually there's a simple ftp program... > ftp ftp.php.net username: ftp password: your@email.address > bin then "cd" into the directory, and simply do a "get ....." (whatever the file's called). installing PHP on my raq3 wasn't as simple as i'd hoped. i actually had to tweak some other scripts (apache's apxs, for example) to get it to work. if you'd like full details of what i had to do, then let me know... it could save you some frustration :] peace, 'bod _________________________________________ \ icabod@innocent.com | icabod@raww.org / \________ http://www.raww.org ________/