Re: dir structure problem

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Jeroen Lankheet wrote:
> Dear all, 
>
> Here I am struggling with the battle of Linux basics. Behold of the
> problems I encounter as I travel along the RH7.3 war fields.  
> PHP with Apache doesn't work. I figured out that the PHP module was
> compiled with the wrong api. So i downloaded the latest stuff: apache,
> php, the mods etc. 
>
> Now I'm being presented with a rather strange phenomenon (for me it is):
> The original web server installation is integrated with the /usr
> structure. With this I mean there is a /usr/lib, usr/include /usr/bin
> all containing apache stuff, mysql stuff and other things. In my default
> installation i included apache and mysql. The apache and php folks on
> the other hand are being given the meaning that the software should
> reside in one location including libs, includes and all the good stuff.
>
> I cannot wait for Redhat updating the RPMs. So how should i update
> apache, php and mysql on my RH7.3 system? 
>
> I know how to compile the stuff, but where should it be put once it is
> compiled regarding the current structure? I've seen different
> recommendations in howto's.

If you are using the standard RedHat apache/PHP rpms (http*.rpm,
php*.rpm), it absolutely should work, provided you've got the
"LoadModule" and "AddModule" lines in the httpd.conf file.

As to the build mechanism, the RPMs were built using

	./configure --prefix=/usr

This says that things should be installed in /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc.
Unless overridden by the "--prefix=/usr" option to "./configure", the
vast majority of code you download will try to install to /usr/local
(configure assumes "./configure --prefix=/usr/local").  This can
always be confirmed by using "./configure --help", which displays all
of the options that configure will accept, and includes the default
settings.  You'll find the installation directories near the top of
the "./configure --help" display.

To delete the RPMs, use "rpm -e packagename", where the "packagename"
comes from the "rpm -qa" output.
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