From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 15:44:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EB537B405 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:44:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snickers.hotpop.com (snickers.hotpop.com [204.57.55.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968C043E81 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:44:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdwestsr@hotpop.com) Received: from hotpop.com (kubrick.hotpop.com [204.57.55.16]) by snickers.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id E605178800 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:43:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hotpop.com (66-191-53-230.chartersc.net [66.191.53.230]) by smtp-1.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7561A2F8137 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:43:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <3D407E84.8B414CF1@hotpop.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 18:41:08 -0400 From: RDWestSr Organization: Webdesign X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Who-is-the-list-GuRu??? (must read) X-Priority: 2 (High) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG wuzzup peeps, i'm getting more bald as the days go by :( I was reading the retail distro box at best buy of FreeBSD v4.0 and decided, Hey - I gotta have this baby! well that was two or three years ago. the book that came with v4.0 was by Greg Lehey - (The Complete FreeBSD) . well the trip home seemed a very long ways. it seemed as if i couldn't get there soon enough to fire up FreeBSD... i'm thinking - YEA - ITS WHAT YAHOO RUNS - I'LL HAVE A HELLA SERVER BOX NOW . After i read most parts of the book i started installing... I joined the list to find out no one had heard of Version 4.0 i was a total nooB to servers at this time and couldn't get any help at all which would be nooB-Fied help. so i gave up after a month or so and switched over to win32 applications. I went from win98 to w2k pro and then MS Advanced Server 2000... Now after screwing around for the past few years with servers and web design, i have really admired effort and commitment that all the programmerz and hackerz have put in for the cause ---- A MS FREE ENVIRONMENT !!! Now i'm back in the saddle again with FreeBSD Unix OS. Am i stupid or what? :) I really just want to join in on the cause. Now to the point - I NEED SOME HELP FROM A UNIX GURU PLZ :) i have this one mountain standing in my way--- i've been studying and reading up on perl for a while and decided to swich over to php/mysql . So i went and got the book from sams publishing called PHP and MySQL Web Development now to do the examples of the book, i have to install and configure with -- mysql, apache, mod_ssl, Open_ssl, RSA Ref 2.0, php, curl, pspell, gd lib i've compiled and built everything but MySQL everyone says install the port... I HAVE and it works just fine BUT-- it is important(by book) that mysql be installed to /usr/local/mysql the reason is while installing PHP the ./configure goes like this - ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \ --with-xml --with-apache=../apache_1.3.xx \ --with-curl=/usr/local/curl \ --with-pspell=/usr/local/pspell \ --with-jpeg-dir=path --with-t1lib=path --enable-shared-pdflib \ --enable-track-vars \ mysql compiles without any errors i just can't get it started... i don't have a clue how to setup the start up scripts or whatever i need ./configure prefix=/usr/local/mysql so what would the prefix be if i just add the port? the port installs to local everywhere files are scattered all over that i seen... so i dunno how to prefix php for build? i've been working at this and researching the net for solutions over a week now... some plz find me the guru for this :) just get me help with compiling mysql to /usr/local/mysql and i'm set tx guys here's my install notes i just did another fresh format and install and i'm stuck till mysql goes in the right place i guess... --mamabear-install-notes-- p3-500, 256M SDRam, 40g HDD FreeBSD v4.6 -------------------------- disk partitions 200MB----------[ / ] 512MB----------[ SWAP ] 39gigs---------[ /usr ] -------------------------- after standard install, install creates /var and /tmp. i want them in /usr so they have no fixed size like auto defaults gives them. so i create the new, remove the old, link to the new. mkdir /usr/var cd /var tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) cd / rm -rf /var ln -s /usr/var /var mkdir /usr/tmp rm -rf /tmp ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp -------------------------- packages to get me going - x11 windows gnome desktop gedit gnome find gnome file manager netscape nav n com tx again guys RDWestSr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message