Background details on MySQL installation

[Danny Anderson]

Joseph Mello wrote:
> I am getting up to speed on MySQL. The folder locations for MySQL that 
> are used by FC1 don’t match those mentioned in my MySQL books. Does 
> anyone know of a document that describes the details of the 
> configuration FC1 uses for the MySQL provided in the distro?
> 

Just a quick note- super-glue your hair to your head before you try to 
install the MySQL C++ API or something similar to a Fedora install of 
MySQL.  You will be ripping your hair out in short order otherwise.

I installed Fedora with the bundled Apache, PHP, and MySQL.  The 
rationale was that letting Fedora install everything would save me the 
headache of making sure that mysql, php, and apache can all play nicely 
together if I had installed the packages separately. With the Fedora 
installation, they do play very nicely together, but the programs are 
definitely installed to nonstandard locations.  To clarify, nonstandard 
here means "not where php, mysql, and apache would install themselves by 
default, i.e., /usr/local/".

I noticed that nonstandard locations, but everything works great so I 
didn't really care until I wanted to interface c++ programs to the 
database server.  I have tried for about 2 weeks to get the mysql c++ 
api installed, but I have pretty much given up on it until I reinstall 
Fedora with mysql 4.x installed separately.

Danny