Apache question..

[Alex Merek]

Hi all,

I'm trying to set up a standalone development machine for my php site on a red hat 7.0 box.

Could use some help here, been following e-gineer (http://www.e-gineer.com/instructions/install-apache1xx-on-linux.phtml) instructions on the Apache/MySQL/PHP install. Got it all to compile successfully, but when I try to get the status it comes back with "Alert!: unable to connect to remote host."

lynx: Can't access startfile <A HREF="http://loclalhost/server-status"" TARGET=_blank>http://loclalhost/server-status"</A>

When I try to open up the http://localhost in lynx I dont get anywhere either.

Tried modifying the etc/hosts but didnt get far - my linux skills are minimal, so I ended up changing it back to the default.

Would appreciate any info on this, thanks much

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[Alex Merek]

PS

The error logs keep spitting this "[alert] (22) invalid argument: setgid: unable to set group id to 42946797295" at me, then it finishes with a "[alert] Child 734 returned a fatal error... Apache is exiting!"

thanks,

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[Alex Merek]

After having spent nearly 30 hours in the past 3 days browsing through the books, forums, web articles... battling with the shell, swapping CDs and pulling hair out I gave up and just installed the rpm versions of the triad that came with my red hat 7.0 cd. And even though neither do I have the latest versions, nor do I know where the hell to find my MySQL directory, I can view html and parse php!

The install was pretty straight forward, I just went through every packadge selecting everything that had to do with apache, php and mysql.

An interesting moment was when it started to seem like it was all over.. I sat down, took a deep breath and thought to myself 'dang.. and this is just the begining!' :p

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