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Re: [Alug] php4 install
by David Freeman 16 Aug '01

16 Aug '01

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:54:54 +0100 Sean Neakums wrote: > >>>>> "JH" == Jenny Hopkins <Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com> writes: > > JH> Alexis Lee wrote: > > JH> Thanks for the reply. > JH> I built it - - with - pgsql - - with - apxs as per the > JH> documentation, but i got the errors: > JH> "sorry, I was not able to successfully run APXS. Possible reasons: > JH> 1. Perl is not installed; > JH> 2. Apache was not compiled with DSO support (- - > enable-modules=so); > JH> 3. "apxs" is not in your path" > > apxs is the part of Apache that generates an Apache DSO; you can't > build an Apache module without it. I think you mentioned you're using > Debian; do you have the apache-dev package installed? Hurrah! Here we find why I took 3 weeks to fail to install it properly. Wait till your trying to install GD support, dependency knightmare! But back to the topic, I found you needed to recompile Apache before PHP then compile PHP then I think you had to some other weird and wonderful compilations to get it to all work. Eventually I gave up and used C :o) It was exactly this problem which I had. Good luck D > -- > Sean Neakums - <sneakums(a)ufo.chicago.il.us> --- --- -- - > Director of International Operations ----- ---- --- -- - > UFO Chicago -------- ------- ------ ----- ---- --- -- - > > > > _______________________________________________ > alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list > Send list replies to alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug > See the website for instructions on digest or unsub! -- "Your house sounds like a fire hazard" Peter Clarke

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Re: [Alug] php4 install
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Aug '01

16 Aug '01

Alexis Lee wrote: >Did you build it the right way? You have to set some options or >something to make it build as an Apache module. I think it builds >as a CGI executable by default. Thanks for the reply. I built it - - with - pgsql - - with - apxs as per the documentation, but i got the errors: "sorry, I was not able to successfully run APXS. Possible reasons: 1. Perl is not installed; 2. Apache was not compiled with DSO support (- - enable-modules=so); 3. "apxs" is not in your path" So I ran it using just the - - with - pgsql option, which worked fine, apart from the lack of necessary modules, at which point I mailed the list. A trawl through the net for similar problems just led me to retry using ./configure - - with - pgsql - - with - apache but again i get the error (in Configuring SAPI modules..) "Invalid Apache directory - unable to find httpd.h under /usr/local/apache" I haven't got httpd.h (or apache.h), so no point in trying it with full path to apache/httpd.h. Jen.

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Re: [Alug] php4 install
by MJ Ray 16 Aug '01

16 Aug '01

Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com writes: > "sorry, I was not able to successfully run APXS. Possible reasons: > 1. Perl is not installed; It should be, if it's debian. > 2. Apache was not compiled with DSO support (- - enable-modules=so); Ditto. > 3. "apxs" is not in your path" Well, is it?

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Re: [Alug] php4 install
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Aug '01

16 Aug '01

Sean Neakums wrote: >apxs is the part of Apache that generates an Apache DSO; you can't >build an Apache module without it. I think you mentioned you're using >Debian; do you have the apache-dev package installed? I do now! - - with - apxs is fine now, many thanks. However make install stops at "make[1]: *** [libphp4.la] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/php-4.0.6' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1" Now I do actually have libphp4.la, so i don't know what it is grumbling about now. Cheers, Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] New Subscriber Introductions
by MJ Ray 16 Aug '01

16 Aug '01

"Martyn Ashworth" <martyn.ashworth(a)eag.uk.com> writes: I'm being mean here. > "an operating system which still baffles me" [...] > RedHat Certified Engineer (some would say just remove the word RedHat!) Hmmmmmmz. > Hope this wasn't too big for readers out there? Nope, it's fine. If only all the lurkers would post something like this about themselves... Welcome to the group!

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New Subscriber Introductions
by Martyn Ashworth 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

Hello All, Quick intro time. Name: Martyn Skene Ashworth Age: Have managed to stay alive for 23 years so far. Job: If it's got a microchip inside I deal with it! Based in a company in Mildenhall, Suffolk. Currently working on a large internal PHP/MySQL/Apache system. (get ready for some "help needed" questions soon). Trying to migrate systems from current NT network slowly over to Linux Just looking for like-minded individuals in a world filled with Micro$oft to learn and develop my skills on an operating system which still baffles me 5/6 years after I first touched it. Skill Set (may be some use to someone, someday?) RedHat Certified Engineer (some would say just remove the word RedHat!) Reasonable Pascal Hacker Pathetic C/C++ Hacker Prolific Beer Garden Haunter Hope this wasn't too big for readers out there? Look forward to a (hopefully) interesting experience. Martyn

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Re: [Alug] php4 install
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

Andrew Glover said: >Why didnt you 'apt-get install php4' ? Because I'm stupid? In fact, I think I tried apt-get and had various problems. Plus following advice. It's installed fine anyway(she blustered), I just need to be able to load up the lib.php4.so module in apache but don't seem to have it. Ta, Jen

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Re: [Alug] Disk Space for Linux
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

David Freeman wrote> >This sounds like a challenge for the next meet, competition who can get >the most number of OS's on a disk! The computer i built for the kids has a 1.5 g hd, on which I've squeezed win98 and debian; any more could be pushing it ;-)

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Re: [Alug] Disk Space for Linux
by David Freeman 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:32:06 +0100 (BST) Adam Bower wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, John Seago wrote: > > > There would also seem to a problem with the rest of my rather elderly > > computer recognising the whole of the 40 gigabytes, it seems to be > able to > > `see' only 33 gigabytes of the new disk. Some opinions hold that > when divided > > into separate drives it will be able to `see' the 40 gigabytes, > whilst others > > hold that the rest of its innards need upgrading to be able to > recognise the > > whole 40 gigabytes. > > this sounds like a BIOS problem, how old is the motherboard? you may be > able to get a BIOS update so you can "see" the rest of the disk or you may > have to fiddle around with the hard-disk parameters in the BIOS. Unless > you overcome this it is very (read not) unlikely that you will see the > last 7Gb. Bios Upgrades are fun, powercut mid upgrades trashes the MB completely! > As for how many distros can you get on 1 disk, I once did an experiment > with a friend and a 4Gb disk, we managed to install in no particular order > > MS-DOS 6.2 > Win3.11 > Win 95 > Win NT (server & workstation) > Solaris 7 > Netware 5 > Redhat 5.2 (or maybe 6.0) > SuSE 6.1 > Debian 2.1 > one of the BSDs > Beos 3 This sounds like a challenge for the next meet, competition who can get the most number of OS's on a disk! > and possibly some others that have slipped my mind. the most fun part of > this experiment was working out which order you had to install things in > as making sure that one OS didn't overwrite another OSs bootloader. > > Now I make that at least 11 operating systems, so I challenge you to put > around 110 on your new disk with minimum repetitions ;-) Thanks D PS Tickets yes. > Adam > -- > This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed > Adam > > > > > _______________________________________________ > alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list > Send list replies to alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug > See the website for instructions on digest or unsub! -- "Your house sounds like a fire hazard" Peter Clarke

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Disk Space for Linux
by John Seago 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

Chris Drane and I have embarked on an experiment, we have installed a 40 gigabyte hard drive in my computer, in order to accommodate a number of Linux distributions. We would like to know what is the optimum size for one Linux distribution, as the Mandrake I have currently installed takes up a little over 2 gigabytes, (in a 5.5 gigabyte partition), how much more space do they needed over the the actual programme itself? There would also seem to a problem with the rest of my rather elderly computer recognising the whole of the 40 gigabytes, it seems to be able to `see' only 33 gigabytes of the new disk. Some opinions hold that when divided into separate drives it will be able to `see' the 40 gigabytes, whilst others hold that the rest of its innards need upgrading to be able to recognise the whole 40 gigabytes. I would welcome suggestions as what to try out in this new found space, I have an ambition to have an installation of Debian, installed by hand and up and running as a long term project, (I've got to learn how to work Mandrake 8 as yet), I've got Red Hat 7.1, (which I found rather `buggy', before I changed to Mandrake). Time is no problem as I retired early. Slackware 8 looks interesting, Progeny would lead in to Debian, and perhaps BSD for the challenge? Divided into 5 gigabyte chunks I would seem to have room for at least 6, and maybe 8 distributions if we can overcome this 33/40 problem. John Seago, (attempting things well beyond his capabilities)

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