Interesting, in the apache configs I've worked with they install under a single tree with the root at /usr/local/apache .... including configuration files, log files, documents, etc.

Thanks for clarifying on how your system has been configured.

alright... i took a look at the config file. i really don't know how to read it... but things seemed to be in order.

i then looked at the example again and noticed something in their hosts file.

i changed the generic alias of 127.0.0.1 to something else, re-ran apachectl and things worked.

but, now, another problem has arisen. do mozilla and ie 6 support php? because when i open the webpage, i don't get a webpage, i just get a list of code.

PHP / HTML is supported in the Web server, not the browser/clients. You mujst to configure your server to work with PHP. That is not trivial and can take a lot of work!

I suggest a good book on PHP and Apache, or search the web with Google for step-by-step instructions.

is this tutorual misleading then? it doesn't mention any complex configuration with php and apache.

it asks that you install the following: idled, mozilla, wget, phplot, adodb, libnet, snort, acid.

it also gives a very threadbare set of instructions for setup.

If Snort uses PHP, you need to configure Apache and PHP. I also think Snort might use a database like MySQL, is that right?

i got it working... there were a few things that needed to be done to get this working.

as for using MySQL, it's an added bonus i guess. you don't need to use snort with mysql... but then the vanilla configuration had it outputting everything into a single log file, which is about 10mb's right now. :/

first i needed to add/reinstall the following packages:

mod_perl-1.27 Embeds a Perl interpreter in the Apache server
mod_php3-3.0.18_3 PHP3 module for Apache
mod_php4-4.3.0 PHP4 module for Apache

i needed to add the php packages with mysql support (i used that gui-ish
interface to do it)

then i needed to to into the httpd.conf file and add the following:

AddModule mod_php.c
AddModule mod_php3.c
AddModule mod_perl.c

LoadModule php3_module modules/libphp3.so
LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so
LoadModule perl_module modules/libperl.so

AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

things seem to be working now... however i do get the following error in the
webpage:

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Warning: Unknown(): Your script possibly relies on a session side-effect which
existed until PHP 4.2.3. Please be advised that the session extension does not
consider global variables as a source of data, unless register_globals is
enabled. You can disable this functionality and this warning by setting
session.bug_compat_42 or session.bug_compat_warn to off, respectively. in
Unknown on line 0

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