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[Hans Zaunere]

> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1105740 Jul 16  2001 php
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          426 Jul 16  2001 php-config
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          593 Jul 16  2001 phpextdist
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          688 Jul 16  2001 phpize
> 
> 
> And of course my /usr/local/etc looks like this [where i've installed
> 
> apache]:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           24 May 28 11:56 php -> 
> /usr/local/etc/php-4.2.1
> drwxrwxr-x   16 root     root         4096 May 28 11:48 php-4.2.1
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     18974720 May 28 11:26 php-4.2.1.tar
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           29 May 28 11:25 httpd -> 
> /usr/local/etc/apache_1.3.22/
> drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root         4096 May 28 11:24 apache_1.3.22
> 

Ick.. this IS an odd install structure (why everything in
/usr/local/etc? personally, I make /usr/local/apache and
/usr/local/php).

> SO THE QUESTION IS:  [yes, i tried symbolic links, did not work.]
> Before 
> I start hacking away [probably in the startup scripts], is there an
> easy 
> way to just remap something here?  The configuration that rackspace 
> provided seems VERY different then what the regular php install
> writes 
> out. SINCE everything has been working great, I dont want to have to 
> reinstall postgres, apache, etc.

Anyway, it looks like /bin/php is a binary, and the link
/usr/local/etc/php is a link to a dir. Assuming the new php lives in
/usr/local/etc/php-4.2.1 and that permissions are ok (which they look
to be), maybe something like:

mv /bin/php /bin/php.original
ln -s /usr/local/etc/php-4.2.1/bin/php /bin/php

would help.  Symbolic links should really clear things up, but take
note of some Apache and PHP settings about following symbolic links. 
Maybe a similar problem with httpd->apache, or maybe I'm way off.

Always dumps vendor provided configurations when he can,

Hans Z.



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