this might not be a real help, but if you reinstalled your system you might want to do this again and give debian sarge a try this time. I strongly recomend this if you plan to run a stable productiv system. The network-installer is about 100MB and you can get an iso-image at http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ . We're very happy with debian - manly because of the packet-engine "dpkg" and apt. You can get apache (or apache2), mysql and php4 easily with apt. If you need help with Debian GNU Linux, just contact me at ich['at"]daniel-beyer.com.
If you're not going to setup a productive system, than give the Linux-Installer of eZ systems a try. This installer will setup apache, php and mysql together with eZ publish on your system. See: http://www.ez.no/ez_publish/download
Daniel Beyer
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YMC AG
Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
web: www.ymc.ch
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I'll keep Debian in mind for next time. I've got access to the "yum" facility with FC4, but php 4 isn't available to it. Apache is running fine, hosting non-ez-Publish sites already, but will need to be re-compiled, I'm sure, to get php 4.3.x to work properly.
