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Re: [PHP] Re: Need some Linux/Apache help From: Brian Clark (brianj <email protected>)
Date: 12/31/01

* Todd Cary (todd <email protected>) [Dec 31. 2001 13:15]:

> Brian et al -

Looks like you meant to send this to the list? :-)) I waited to see if
one would roll on in, but it doesn't look like it will be, sooo...

> This is starting to make some sense, however, there are still some areas
> of confusion:

> <<<
> just use --with-apxs=/path/to/apxs/that/exists/on/your/system
> >>>

> What is the best way to determine where RH 7.2 put that? What am I
> actually looking for?

You are looking for an executable (a perl program actually) named apxs.
At your shell prompt, try:

which apxs

If that returns nothing, try:

locate apxs

or

locate apxs | grep bin

> <<<
> If you use --with-apxs when configuring PHP, you don't have to mess
> around with your current Apache install. For the exception of making
> sure httpd.conf is correct after you install PHP, you don't need to do
> anything else to your existing apache install.
> >>>

> This makes sense now. Apache, and I am sure other application, use
> modules, however, I am not sure of the mechanism at the application
> level. In the Delphi/Windows environment, I can use packages at compile
> time, but they do become part of the EXE file.

Using --with-apache is the equivalent. But unless you've done this
before and know exactly what configure arguments you need, you might
want to use --with-apxs to build PHP as a loadable module so that you
can easily re-configure PHP and build it all over again if you need to
add support for something else (for example, if you decided a week from
now you wanted MySQL support in PHP).

Bottom line:

If you use --with-apache you will have to build Apache *and* PHP and
install them.

If you use --with-apxs you only need to build PHP and install it.

> <<<
> Just download PHP tarball, unpack it somewhere.
> ./configure --with-apxs=/path/to/your/apxs [rest of your options here]
> make install
> >>>

> Again, I am not sure how to find the path.

See the notes at the top. :) 

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