[TriLUG] what is this stuff?

[Dave Sorenson]

What flavor of Linux are you running? Many distros put things in 
slightly different places.

Dave

jason watts wrote:
> ok, paying attention to the book i am reading, php and mysql
>
> it has me setting up my enviornment installing mysql, php and appache 2
>
> appache 2 and php is there from my former workings on the computer, or 
> the original install
>
> the book said appache should be in ./usr/local/apache2
> also says if i had mysql installed, it would be in the same place, 
> ../usr/local/mysql
>
> it also says that the root directory for apache is in 
> /usr/local/apache2/htdocs
>
> on my system, the root directory for apache is in /var/www/html
>
> and as far as for apache, i ran find . -name httpd and came up with 
> several things
>
> [root at localhost /]# find . -name httpd
> ../etc/sysconfig/httpd
> ../etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
> ../etc/logrotate.d/httpd
> ../etc/httpd
> ../usr/lib/httpd
> ../usr/sbin/httpd
> ../var/lock/subsys/httpd
> ../var/log/httpd
>
>
> my question is, which of these is the directory i need?
>
> what do these and some of the other ones not listed usually used for? 
> (eg, what is var usr etc dev lib proc srv )
>
> and, where is it recomended to install my apache and mysql too?
>
> sorry for all the questions of late, just trying to acutally make my 
> computers do things now
>
> jsn
>
>