hi, (another noobie here, please have patience) i've been looking around for quite some time now, and really haven't found a site, article, post whatever that gives a step by step on how apache mysql and php can be installed from the tarballs(source) i've tried it out the first time i installed linux ( my very first one was a net install debian) , mysql went easily, i believe it executed itself, i installed the sql tools and it worked fine... i've been able to install apache independently and it worked fine... php worked also... however i haven't been able to make the whole AMP thing work, the apache php combo couldn't run with the mysql... and since i've been loaded with projects since then, i really haven't had time to sort things out, add to that i started using linux 5 months ago, with no friends that even touch the OS... i've, since then, slowly went through some basics, linux operation from the commandline, tried out a few diff. desktop envi's, checked out fedora... but I've never been able to come across a step by step howto on source installation of the AMP group... I've settled for the XAMPP package for some time now, but ... can I make a wish for that? help, anyone?
Take a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_apache2_ssl_php5_zendoptimizer_ioncubeloader To also have MySQL support, install MySQL and the adjust the configure string for PHP5 (see Code: ./configure --help ).
