RH9 / PHP / MySQL
 

First and foremost, please delete the thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&postid=687442 that I posted in the RedHat Distro forum. I think I have narrowed down my problem to something simple but seemingly unachievable in Red Hat.

Using phpinfo(), I have dertermined that my installation of php 4.2.2 is a) insufficient to run under Apache 2.0 (they recommend version 4.3.0 or higher) and b) not configured to use the mysql database module.

I have downloaded php-4.3.4 but it is not in RPM format and therefore requires manual installation. I unpacked the whole thing and when I attempt to run the configure command, I get errors telling me that my compiler (gcc and cc) are not in the path. In addition, when I try to install gcc, I get errors that the required modules krb5-libs and openssl are not installed. So, how in the world do I get this new version of php installed and configured properly with the mysql module?

Thanks!

Sorry for the double-post. I've re-installed from scratch being sure to activate the php-mysql package among others that I now find I need.

Now I have a rather simple question..
How to I make this new Linux server a machine that I can access using TLD within my own private LAN? For instance, I would like to call the box (and it's domain) mednickonline-dev.com and then be able to access it from any other machine on my LAN through DNS. Do I need to create a HOST / LMHOSTS file for each Windows box on my LAN so that the domain points to the Linux server?