Hi,
I am running Mandrake 10.0 and KDE.

The ultimate goal is to run phpGroupware. The requirements are Apache, php and mySQL.

Apache is up and running. I used the drakewizard and this was quite easy. Surfing to localhost brings up the default page that indicates Apache is successfully installed.

Now I need php and MySQL. Using the rpmdrake, there are numerous packages that could be selected for installation which include mysql or php in the name. I'm pretty sure that only a few are needed for my purposes, but I don't know which ones. I prefer to install only those packages that are required.

Can someone tell me exactly what needs to be installed?

Also, I am finding that when it comes to configuring and installing software, it is often most convenient to log in as root, event though KDE warns against this practice. Is this a bad habit? So far I have managed to avoid causing damage, and it sure makes getting around easier as there are no access restrictions or password requirements after logging in.

Thanks for all your help and guidance. I am hoping to save some money on Exchange type services in our small office.

Bill

Somebody who runs Mandrake could probably look up the available packages and tell you which are the one you need but if you posted a list of the packages in question your chance of getting an answer from non-mandrake users - such as myself - would ceratainly increase.

As a side note: Have you had a look at egroupware? It's a fork of phpgroupware and has imo a much more professional and polished look and feel and also at the moment it seems it has the more active development. I use it here on a site with about 150 people and everyone seems really happy with it.

two things...

if you are flexible and maybe want to use an easier way of setting up all this, have a look at
XAMPP at http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html

otherwise i would recommend downloading all *.src.rpm's and compile them yourself with all
the options you need...
this way you can setup an apache with integrated mysql and php support.
another great tool to administer mysql is phpmyadmin available at www.sourceforge.net

TOM


PS
maybe this is not the correct forum for this type of question, there are quite a few tutorials on setting up this standard situation...
take a peak => http://www.start-linux.com/articles/article_79.php

You will likely require a custom compilation of PHP. For instance, you have to compile it --with-imap --with-ldap, --with-mysql, depending on what you are running as your environment. However, the instructions of eGroupware are pretty good, as I remember, and will recommend configuration parameters.