note 7495 deleted from faq.installation by philip

<p>Just a reflection of my PHP4 install process in RedHat 6.2 (hopefully somebody with my level of experience will find this useful):</p> <p>Configure couldn't find apxs. This is because RedHat didn't install it as part of the server option install. Go figure. The solution to a missing apxs script is to install the apache-devel-1.3.12-2.i386.rpm from your RedHat 6.2 install CD, which will put apxs in the right spot with the right parameters inside.</p> <p>Another problem I had was that since I'd upgraded PostgreSQL, and was trying to compile PHP4 with PostgreSQL support, Apache couldn't find /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.so.2.1 (needed to load modules/libphp4.so with PostgreSQL support) and so wouldn't start (when I did ./httpd restart in /etc/rc.d/init.d). The answer was to add /usr/local/pgsql/lib to the list of places that library files are kept, in the file /etc/ld.so.conf, and then run ldconfig -v to update the list of libraries.</p> <p>Then, of course (in RedHat 6.2), cd /etc/rc.d/init.d and then do ./httpd restart .</p> <p>For me, the rest is smooth sailing. Except for the SQL errors.</p> <p>Note that this advice is from a somewhat newbie (to Linux, PHP and PostgreSQL) perspective, so your mileage may vary. Exercise extreme caution.</p>