Re: Installation when Apache is not in /usr/local

[Christopher Jones <christopher.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/13/11 7:18 PM, Emily Morton-Owens wrote:
> I'm trying to install PHP on my own webserver that's installed in a nonstandard directory on a university server, following these instructions:
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php I already had Apache installed and working before I started. I don't need MySQL, and Apache is
> running from inside my home directory, so in Step 5, I changed this line:
>
>     ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql
>
>
> to
>
>     ./configure --with-apxs2=/home/where/it/really/is/bin/apxs
>
>
> That appeared to work, so then I ran "make," which took a very long time. Then I tried the next step, "make install," and got all this:
>
>     Installing PHP SAPI module:       apache2handler
>     /usr/local/pkg/apache/2.2.8/build/instdso.sh SH_LIBTOOL='/usr/local/pkg/apache/2.2.8/build/libtool' libphp5.la <http://libphp5.la>
>     /usr/local/pkg/apache/2.2.8/modules
>     /usr/local/pkg/apache/2.2.8/build/libtool --mode=install cp libphp5.la <http://libphp5.la> /usr/local/pkg/apache/2.2.8/modules/
>     cp .libs/libphp5.so /usr/local/pkg/apache/2.2.8/modules/libphp5.so
>     cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/pkg/apache/2.2.8/modules/libphp5.so': Read-only file system
>     apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536
>     .
>     make: *** [install-sapi] Error 1
>
>
> It looks like that it's trying to copy files to a place that I already know I don't have permission on. How can I customize this step like the other
> one so it's aware of where Apache actually is, and finish the installation?
>
> Thanks,
> Emily


Is '/home/where/it/really/is' actually '/usr/local/pkg/apache/2.2.8/' in your case
(though that would be a funny home dir!)?  You really will need write access to the
modules subdir.

If not, try the old "rm config.cache && make clean' each time you run 'configure'.

Though you didn't ask, if you want the rest of PHP to be installed in a
non-standard location use the --prefix option to 'configure'.

Chris

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