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what should I bare in mind when installing PHP4 for apache 1.3x on Redhat Linux 9.
This will be installed on a develeopment server environment so hopefully will go as smoothly as possible. ^_^
Will you need anything customized? IE, will you be running something ridiculous like Horde, which requires a whole bunch of things installed for PHP, but which aren't available in RPM, but available in source...
If you're going to start building from source, then you'll have to start doing everything from source. That's been my experience, at least... As soon as you start mixing RPM's with source builds, you run into a plethora of problems base on the fact that source builds don't register themselves with the RPM database.
My suggestion: Go one way, or the other, completely. If you stumble upon something that you need that needs to be built from source, then build EVERYTHING from source... that include openssl, mod_ssl, apache, php, mysql, and whatever else you may need....
It all depends on what this install is for... If you're just building a test system, just to mess around with, and don't have huge requirements, then you could probably install it all from RPM...
I Hope that helps, and that I haven't scared you off of trying it out. :)
-MM
Thanks sounds like pretty good advice.
I had a word with our system administrator about how the present system has been set up so far as I have only been here for a few weeks now. I believe its been built using RPMs so far. I will take you advice but will probably check with him further as I know something's were set up by someone else so need more investigating.. save on any white hair moments or me wreaking the system ;)
thanks again, much appreciated.
I hope everything works out for ya. :)
