Help needed

[Anon]

Can any kind sould help me sort out the mess I have made.

I have PHP3 installed and want to install PHP4, but I also forgot to put mysql support on as well, and not doing very well at it.

can someone either point me to step by step instructions, or asssist on the server?

Many thanks

Kevin

[Anon]

kevin,

what you can do is:

1) download the source of php3 (the version you have on the system), unless you have the source already
2) go to the toplevel of the source (e.g. /path/to/php3) and run "make uninstall". That should (hopefully) remove all the binaries and config the php3 installed on your system.

3) download/goto the source of php4. read the install file. If you are going to install apache from the source too, then go down to the part of the INSTALL file where it says (QUICK START -- STATIC INSTALLATION).
4) follow the steps there.
5) hopefully you'll have the php4 and apache1.3.12 installed successfully!

[Anon]

Thanks!

But i cant seem to make the uninstall, where exactly should the source be? I did a "whereis PHP" and tried it in each of them folder but got a message "make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.
"

so i guess im doing something wrong.