Hi Chris,I have not had to compile Apache httpd so as you say you have you will probably know more about it than I do. I would suspect there would be a file in your httpd source directory with the original configuration. I'd use this same configuration and everything will remain in the layout that it currently is.
It seems that the Ex Administrator decided to compile and install a new version rather than to use the default installed version. There is only one httpd.conf file it means that the default installation is not running. Following are the outputs of few commands to give you better idea. I want to use the same Apache what is running now.
It seems that we are using second httpd which doesn't have DSO support. Usually when we compile Apache the httpd.conf and all the bin files are copied in the same parent directory but here I don't know why it is in different directories, httpd.conf is in "/web/conf", and httpd is in /usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/. So I am confused what prefix I should specify while recompiling. Will Recompile overwrite all my config?
*#which httpd */usr/sbin/httpd
*# /usr/sbin/httpd -V
*Server version: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux)
Server built: Aug 23 2000 15:44:50
Server's Module Magic Number: 19990320:7
Server compiled with....
-D EAPI
-D HAVE_MMAP
-D HAVE_SHMGET
-D USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD
-D USE_MMAP_FILES
-D USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D HTTPD_ROOT="/usr"
-D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/sbin/suexec"
-D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="/var/httpd/httpd.pid"
-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="/var/httpd/httpd.scoreboard"
-D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="/var/httpd/httpd.lock"
-D DEFAULT_XFERLOG="/var/log/httpd/access_log"
-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="/var/log/httpd/error_log"
-D TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="/etc/httpd/conf/mime.types"
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf" *<---DOESN'T EXIST*
-D ACCESS_CONFIG_FILE="/etc/httpd/conf/access.conf"
-D RESOURCE_CONFIG_FILE="/etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf"
*# /usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd -V
*Server version: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)
Server built: Apr 9 2003 16:41:15
Server's Module Magic Number: 19990320:13
Server compiled with....
-D HAVE_MMAP
-D HAVE_SHMGET
-D USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD
-D USE_MMAP_FILES
-D HAVE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D HAVE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D HARD_SERVER_LIMIT=256
-D HTTPD_ROOT="/usr/local/etc/httpd"
-D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/suexec"
-D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="logs/httpd.pid"
-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/httpd.scoreboard"
-D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="logs/httpd.lock"
-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
-D TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="/web/conf/mime.types"
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="/web/conf/httpd.conf" *<----EXIST AND HAVE ALL MY CONFIGURATION*
-D ACCESS_CONFIG_FILE="/web/conf/access.conf"
-D RESOURCE_CONFIG_FILE="/web/conf/srm.conf"
*# ps -ef|grep httpd*
root 892 1 0 2003 ? 00:03:29 /usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd
web 893 892 0 2003 ? 00:31:48 /usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd
web 894 892 0 2003 ? 00:30:49 /usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd
web 895 892 0 2003 ? 00:30:43 /usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd
web 896 892 0 2003 ? 00:30:59 /usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd
web 897 892 0 2003 ? 00:30:33 /usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd
web 1055 892 0 2003 ? 00:30:16 /usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd
web 1056 892 0 2003 ? 00:20:28 /usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd
web 1059 892 0 2003 ? 00:30:24 /usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd
web 1084 892 0 2003 ? 00:30:31 /usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd
web 1128 892 0 2003 ? 00:30:48 /usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd
web 21079 892 0 Mar17 ? 00:03:59 /usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd
root 12659 12287 0 13:23 pts/1 00:00:00 grep httpd
*Many thanks *for your continuous support. I will wait for your reply
MJ
Yes, if you recompile then existing files would be overwritten, though I don't know if this applies to httpd.conf too. I'd back up any configuration files before recompiling. You will need to do the PHP compile before Apache httpd. There are some useful insstructions in the INSTALL file in the PHP sources.
Regards
Chris
