FreeBSD, Apache & PHP4

Although I have done quite a lot of work with Apache running on windows, I have never used a *nix variant before. I decided to install and use FreeBSD on an old PC and use it as an Apache web server.

I set up FreeBSD OK, and I have got Apache 1.3.27 running on FreeBSD 4.4. However, when I go to install mod_php4, it returns an error as follows:


What exactly does this mean - I don't have Apache 2 installed?!?

I tried to install Apache 2.0.43 to get around this problem, but it gives an error saying:

However, when I looked on FreshPorts.org and the FreeBSD web site, I couldn't find where to download OpenSSL 0.9.6e from. If anyone could point me in the right direction or tell me what to do, that'd be great!

Thanks in advance.

Are you installing from ports? If so, the first thing you should do is make sure that your ports tree is current.

1) install the net/cvsup port:
cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup
make install clean

2) copy /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile to your home dir:
cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile ~/

3) edit the ~/ports-supfile and put in a mirror near you:
here for mirrors

4) update ports tree:
cd ~
cvsup ports-supfile

5) wait for this to update. the first time around it could take awhile.


Then try and install the port again and see what happens....

My problem is that I can't seem to connect to the internet from that machine. It is on a network with the IP Address 192.168.0.4 and the internet connection is via 192.168.0.1 so I set the Gateway to that address.

However, I am unable to connect to the internet although I can FTP/telnet into the FreeBSD machine from other machines on the network, and ping other computers on the network from my FreeBSD machine.

As a result, I have been installing all the ports manually. Any ideas? Surely it's possible to install PHP4 without using Apache2 ?

Yes, it is possible to install without Apache2. In fact, it is the default to go without Apache2. I believe what you are seeing is an infomational message "Define WITH_APACHE2 to build mod_php4 as an apache2 module." followed by an error message ":No such file or directory"

What steps are you taking to install the mod_php4 port? Because you don't have an internet connection, have you downloaded the other dependencies you will need?