Installation woes

[frozenpeas]

Hi,

I am trying to install PHP and MySQL on RH7. I had this problem when I installed qmail, as well.

After I unpack and ./configure... I try "make" and get an error like this:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Then just for the hell of it, I try "make install" and get:

make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.

What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

 

[RhythmAce]

Is there any reason you can't install with rpms? You should be able to find the latest version at RedHat or it's mirror sites. If you must compile from source, you will need to compile php with mysql and apache support. The command line for ./configure will look something like this:

$ ./configure --with-mysql --with-apache=../apache_1.3.x

The error is saying it can't find the file called "makefile" which should have been created by configure. Look to see if another dir was created with the source files in it and look for "makefile". Then type the make command from there.

You will also have to recompile apache if it wasn't compiled with the php modules.