During installation of SL5 I chose to install webserver (apache, php, pear, unixODBC, sqlite, mysql, ...) Using phpinfo() I notice that the configure command was ... --without-pear --without-sqlite --without-mysql --without-gd --without-unixODBC --disable-pdo ... Yet PEAR, MySQL, PDO, ... are installed. I can install and use PEAR packages, I can connect to databases and query them with mysql functions, I can connect to MySQL database using PDO functions, ... It looks like a contradiction to me. Unless I should not trust solely on the view of the configure command but also on the list with additional ini files ? By the way if I want to install extra php modules (I think that is the right term for things like php-xml, php-xmlrpc, ...) how do I do that ? With add/remove software (limited choice) or do I have to custom install Apache instead of using SL installation ? Is it possible to upgrade to a higher PHP (e.g. 5.2.1) version without breaking the updater of SL ? I know that bugfixes and security updates are normally backported but, alas not the new features. Thanx, Johan -- VLIZ Flanders Marine Institute