[cobalt-users] PHP, Apache, MySQL issue

[Daren Cotter <darenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all...I've got quite a complicated situation, so I'll try to explain
it as well as possible.

I am setting up a client on a RaQ3 with a shopping site, complete with a
cart, online ordering, etc...this is all being done using PHP &
MySQL...however, I just recently discovered a major problem. I'm not real
certain of the terminology, but I know php can be installed two different
ways...one is "under" apache, so that it works with it, and the other does
not; it installs like perl would, so that a separate process has to be
launched for each php script interpreted. Whenever I have installed PHP it
has installed the first way (must be the default)...I have never known or
cared to know the difference but I have been told that if not installed
the first way, persistent database connections do not work.

Persisten DB connections are essential for this website to operate! When I
try to install PHP "under" apache, I get an error, and it auto. installs
the other way. (The error is below). Everythign works, but a new
connection is launched to the DB each time a script is called, which makes
the site unoperable.

The only other issue to consider is why is apache installed the way it
is? It's the only server I operate here that is, and I believe the reason
is that ChiliSOft is running on that server.

The question: Is there any way I can reconfigure apache so that I can
install PHP so that it will accept Persistent DB connections and not
tamper with the ChiliSoft program?

Thanks a lot!

ERROR MESSAGE:
apxs:Warning: /usr/bin/httpd not found or not executable
apxs:Warning: Continuing anyway...
apxs:Warning: No shared object support for Apache
apxs:Warning: available under your platform. Make sure
apxs:Warning: the Apache module mod_so is compiled into
apxs:Warning: your server binary `/usr/bin/httpd'.
apsx:Warning: Continuing anyway...