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[.:PBS:. Medik]

Hello again,
I'm just returning a final note as you have supplied me with the solution, 
many thanks.
I ditched my 4.6.2R, and found another version in my old stack of CDs' the 
4.7 version, and installed
like a charm, as you suggested, I did a minimal install and fetched all 
relevant distributions
VIA FTP, and everything compiled perfectly along with Apache.. Why I didn't 
get the 5.3 as you suggested, well,
my CD burner is still fried, and I'm not able to replace it anytime soon. 
so the luck of finding the 4.7 in my overly large inventory of CDs' was a 
miracle  :)

Again many thanks for throwing me in the right direction, if I need 
anything else, I will surely return to you via email  :)

Best regards.
Marc.



At 10:57 AM 2/10/2005 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote:
>.:PBS:. Medik wrote:
>
>>I installed my copy of 4.6.2 cleanly on a machine, to avoid having to 
>>find myself looking for more ports and programs to install I did a 
>>complete installation without bothering with the configuration of 
>>Xwindows ( as I will be accessing this box from SSH on a windows machine) 
>>so I don't need the XFREE86 or however its called, hehe. So in essence 
>>this is all being fine tuned by remote on LAN.
>
>First, 4.6 is depreciated, since you are starting on a clean install, I 
>suggest you start with a current release such as 4.11 or 5.3. For ease of 
>future upgrade, I suggest 5.3. Get the first iso, no need for the rest.
>
>Second, you might find yourself installing a few times before you get it 
>right. Not that you get it wrong at first, but your needs might need to 
>clear up. A full install is not recommended, you will get a system that 
>requires more work to update. A minimal is better, since you can always 
>add stuff as you need. Dependencies are resolved automatically if you use 
>the ports.
>
>For a workstation I choose X-Developer, for a server, no X.
>
>>To answer your question about whether I'm downloading .iso, no I did that 
>>for the first copy of the OS only and made a cd copy from windows yes. 
>>But all further ports I grab are *.tar.gz straight from Apache.org yes 
>>and then ftp'd into my bsd box. I can unzip them fine then I'm stuck with 
>>the tar to which I believe I 'untared' it correctly that now I have an 
>>apache_1.3.33 folder, which to me seems fine, but I don't believe I put 
>>it in the right directory tree.
>
>It sounds like you are not installing from ports, this explains why apache 
>fails to compile. You should get the ports tree in /usr/ports, then
>
># cd /usr/ports/www/apache13
># make
># make install
>
>if you get an error, retry and you can catch all the output using script:
>
># script apache_build.log
># make
># exit
>
>see if you can locate the problem if not copy the relevant part of the 
>output when asking here.
>
>cheers, Erik
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