There's a prescribed, rather involved procedure for doing this.  It
includes compiling things in the right order with the right
configuration options.  I've done it for PostgreSQL (which BTW I like
more than MySQL), and you should find the details somewhere in the PHP
installation instructions.

You should make careful, precise notes of exactly what you do -- so you
can better ask for help if it doesn't work, and so you can do it again
later when something needs to be upgraded.

Regards,

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

Don Harrop wrote:
> 
> I'm still trying to get php3 working as a module under apache with mysql
> support.  Someone gave me the suggestion to actually compile support into
> the php3 module.  So I grabbed the tar file instead of  using any rpm
> packages and compiled everything.  I now have a new module for php3 in my
> modules directory.  When I uncomment out the lines in httpd.conf for php3
> support and start the server I still get problems.  httpd says it's starting
> but never actually runs.  I've checked out /var/log/messages and it's got a
> record of httpd starting but no errors afterwards..  I recomment the php3
> lines and boom!  httpd is back up again.  Bad compile options?  I dunno.
> 
> Don