On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:46:43PM -0500, Jason Newman wrote: > If anyone can help me with installing Apache that would be great. I am > trying to install Apache with PHP and the instrustions I got are as follows. > > tar -xvzf httpd-2.0.47.tar.gz > cd httpd_2.0.47 > ./configure --prefix=/www --enable-so > make > make install
> And then it says to test the apache by typing "/www/bin/apachectl start" but > there is no /www directory? You should do everything up to and including the "make" as a regular user, but the "make install" probably needs to be done as root, since it will need to create and populate a directory in / that most likely has restricted access, owned by root and only writeable by root. watch what happens when you run each of these commands, looking for error messages that you can look up or that you can report along with your questions. One way of recording the output from these commands for later scrutiny is by using the command called 'script'. Read about its usage with man script > I have searched for the apachectl and found it in the > /root/snortinstall/httpd_2.0.47/support directory but it > doesn't start from there. What am I doing wrong here? I am > realtively new to Linux and am installing this on Linux 9 so > be gentle. ;o) Redhat still almost certainly ships apache as a package which you should be able to install with rpm -ivh theirapachepackagename.rpm itsdependencies.rpm otherdepends.rpm where, of course, you'd use real package names in place of these package names. --Joe
