I am still plugging away on a freebie project, attempting to install php and connect it to a non traditional install of apache and mysql. I am using the wre (webgui runtine environment), where apache, perl, and mysql are all with in /data/wre. I am running things on an Ubuntu server, so initially, I just used apt to install php4, and php-cli. In the domain.conf I added: LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp4.so <IfModule mod_php4.c> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps </IfModule> This worked fine, only, I would get preg_match errors at the top of the page. I found it was due to using external libraries for pcre. The fix is to install php with the following option,"--with-pcre-regex=", with no trailing path . I am attempting to install php using source files, and this seems to work, but now it is asking for MYSQL Headers, which requires I install mysql-devel. I have a couple questions about this; if I use apt-get, instead, to install mysql-devel, will it work to use "-o" to set the install path to /data/wre/prereqs/mysql . Also, will it work to do the same for installing php, to add "--with-pcre-regex="? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.