[newbie] ./configure

[Michael]

I was tring to run configure on apache 1.3.17.
permissions are 777.
I ran ./configure in the correct directory.
The response was "bash: ./configure: No such file or directory"  
I am logged in as root,  and the user and group are both root.
The first line of configure is # !/bin/sh, the same as other configure
that have been run, such as the configure for PHP.

What is going on?

Michael
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