Hi,

I've just been trying to install the latest version of apache on redhat 9 but i'm having a bit of a problem:

First I downloaded the latest version, then extracted the file:

#tar zxvf http.2.2.......

the changed into the new folder and typed

#./configure

here's the problem, when i give the 'make' command i get the following error:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.


Any help would be great!

I've also heard that redhat 9 has apache and php pre-installed but after putting a test.php file in /var/www/html and going to localhost in the browser i only got an error message which suggests to me that it is in fact not installed.

Cheers.

Did the ./configure process finish properly? Why not use Fedora Core 4 which has newer versions of apache and php?

The configure script most probably did finish its job. You probably got an error message after typing ./configure and before running make...

And the error message was ?

Hi,

thanks for the replies. I decided to try an earlier version of apache and the make error is slightly different now. Here is an exact screen dump of the process:


[root@NeilLinux tars]# cd apache_1.3.34
[root@NeilLinux apache_1.3.34]# ls
ABOUT_APACHE configure LICENSE NWGNUenvironment.inc README WARNING-WIN.TXT
cgi-bin htdocs logs NWGNUhead.inc README.configure
conf icons Makefile.tmpl NWGNUmakefile README-WIN.TXT
config.layout INSTALL NOTICE NWGNUtail.inc src
[root@NeilLinux apache_1.3.34]# ./configure
Configuring for Apache, Version 1.3.34
+ Warning: Configuring Apache with default settings.
+ This is probably not what you really want.
+ Please read the README.configure and INSTALL files
+ first or at least run './configure --help' for
+ a compact summary of available options.
+ using installation path layout: Apache (config.layout)
Creating Makefile
Creating Configuration.apaci in src
Creating Makefile in src
+ configured for Linux platform
Error: could not find any of these C compilers
anywhere in your PATH: gcc cc acc c89
Configure terminated34
[root@NeilLinux apache_1.3.34]# make
===> src
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/tars/apache_1.3.34'
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/tars/apache_1.3.34/src'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/tars/apache_1.3.34/src'
make[1]: *** [build-std] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/tars/apache_1.3.34'
make: *** [build] Error 2
[root@NeilLinux apache_1.3.34]#



Any thoughts?

Why are you even trying to launch 'make' since the configure script did not finish ? If the configure script does not finish, it cannot create the makefiles. If your have no makefiles, it's no use running make.

Now read the error:
If you are going to compile any kind of software of software on your machine, you at least need a compiler installed...

As was said earlier, you are always going to want to install a compiler when running linux. The most common is gcc. There should be an rpm for it on one of the red hat cd's. Also, during the install when selecting packages, it's usually under the "Development" or "Programming" tree.

had the same problem mate, sure other people know alot more about this than me but here we go.

you will need to install gcc to configure apache, and you will need to do this before you can run the make command

good luck dude

thank you zeitounator for an entirely unhelpful post.

linux-idiot and jonlake, thanks for the genuinely useful advice.

Zebra.

Actually zeitounators post was helpful. You were pointed in the right direction, so I am not so sure why you are saying it was unhelpful.

it seemed like he was being sarcastic which annoyed me.

sorry.

sarcastic is the wrong word, i meant to say smarmy