[nylug-talk] VirtualDocumentRoot and PHP

[Ron Guerin]

Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 06:26 -0500, Ron Guerin wrote:
>> Ruben Safir wrote:
>>> You could have just installed it off of apache.org and compiled it.
>>>
>>> It works out of the box without a fuss.
>>>   
>> Not really, unless you're not using a package manager.  If you are,
>> then
>> compiling your own will lead to quite a lot of fuss.
> 
> Ron I love dear, you but your not right about this.  Apache is the
> easiest thing to compile and is designed to be so.  Apache is designed
> to be compiled.  Working seriously with Apache and not compiling it is a
> mistake of the most fundamental kind.

Compiling your own Apache leaves the package management system believing
one thing when something else is true.  This is not a good thing.  Of
course this isn't really about compiling, it's about packages, which you
and I have tussled over in the past, and there's little point in doing
so again.  The only thing that surprises me is that you still haven't
switched to a packageless Linux, although I suppose it doesn't really
matter if you're going to completely ignore the package management
system that's already there.

- Ron