Setting Up A LAMP Server

[Crashed_Again]

Hello folks. I wanted to setup my desktop machine as a LAMP server so I could test some php applications that I'm writing. I'm very confused as to what exactly I have to emerge and what USE flags I need to use to get everything going. Of course I'm going to need to emerge httpd,php, and mysql but all these packages have USE flags that I'm not sure if I need or not.

Basically what I'm asking is if I wanted to install something like Postnuke what would I have to emerge and what flags would I need to set?

I know this is a very noob question but I'm getting a little mixed up here. Thanks in advance.

[Ateo]

This howto should get you all set up.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php? ... che+modphp

Make sure 'apache2' is part of your USE flags.

[Crashed_Again]

So I don't need to add mysql support to apache via the mysql USE flag? Also that guide does not talk about installing mysql. Is mysql simply:

emerge mysql

?

[double00]

no, you don't need to have a specific flag for apache. just emerge mysql. The 'P' in LAMP, be it PHP, Perl (or Python) is the 'glue' between the web server and database server.

I know that Perl requires specific modules to speak to SQL databases, using DBI. AFAIK PHP has this built in. You use the DB::connect command in your php widgets to do the talking.

[Immortal Q]

You use the DB::connect command in your php widgets to do the talking.

Fairly sure you mean Perl widgets - PHP, assuming you have mysql support compiled in (USE flag), accessed the database through mysql_<many things here>.

In any case - Apache and MySQL exist completely separate from one another; so you only worry about those USE flags when dealing with Perl, PHP, (I guess Python too, if you're the masochistic type).

[double00]

By widget I meant the stuff in the <?php ?> tags. Just a colloquialism, as opposed to any extra software component that is required.