Hi All, I'm new to this list. I'm a graduate student at Indiana University in Library and Information Science and have recently become quite a Red Hat Fedora convert. I have a Linux/PHP question I was hoping that someone could help me with. I've been running Linux on a spare computer for about 9 months now; I am fairly proficient with computers, but I'm not exactly and advanced user as far a Linux is concerned. Recently, I've decided to learn to use PHP and MySQL so that I can design more powerful web pages. I thought it would be great if my own server could handle this so that I had somewhere to practice, but I am having problems getting PHP (5.1.2), MySQL (5.0.18) and Apache (2.2) to all work together. I am running Red Hat Fedora Core 5 and the OS comes with all 3 programs. Apache is already set up to run PHP, however PHP has not been set up to interact with MySQL. After checking the PHP docs at www.php.net, I discovered that PHP needs to be recompiled with the '-with-mysql' option; additionally, the php.ini file needs to be altered to load php_mysql.dll. My problem here is that, as all of these programs were loaded with the installation of Fedora, I am not certain of where the install directory is for PHP. I do a 'find / -name php*' and I see several possible files (most likely, the one in /bin) but nothing that really looks like an install directory - no place where I can just ./configure make make-install. Do I need to download the entire PHP program and start the installation from scratch? Would this mean that I need to recompile Apache to be integrated with the new make of PHP? Also, I've searched my computer for php_mysql.dll and cannot find it. Does anyone know where this is available? For what it is worth, all three programs work fine as they are: Apache serves up web pages, the PHP scripts run (as long as I don't make any errors in the program), and I can use MySQL through the command line. If anyone out there has worked through this or a similar problem, I would certainly appreciate any advice you could offer. Thanks Dan Bicknell
