Installing Cacti on Gentoo

[portcullischain]

After installing Cacti on my brand spanking new Gentoo box, I proceeded to follow the installation instructions for Linux at http://www.cacti.net/downloads/docs/html/index.html and got as far as "Configuring the Webserver". The second instruction says

Now, please locate the PHP configuration file at /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf

. The only problem is I don't have a php.conf file. I run a

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find / -name 'php.conf'

and get nothing.
-PC

[gandalf]

Please try this link instead. It should be up-to-date
Reinhard

[portcullischain]

Please try this link instead. It should be up-to-date
Reinhard

Which one....you have three in your signature.
-PC

[portcullischain]

I'm assuming you mean the third link in the sig. (New Cacti Manual here). Under "Configure PHP" I edit the php.ini file which under the Gentoo ebuild is located at /etc/php/apache2-php5/php.ini. It (the manual) tells me to

Please find the file /etc/php.ini and make sure that the directive extension_dir points to the correct directory. Example:

extension_dir = /etc/php.d

The only problem is I don't have any directories anywhere on my hard disk with the directory "php.d". The manual also, I think, suggest the directory should be where I find mysql.so. I only find that file in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so. Do you think there is a problem with the ebuild? I didn't see any obvious error messages when I installed it.
-PC

[gandalf]

We're hitting here the wall of different file layouts for different distros. For Red Hat flavours at least, you won't add the line manually. This is done when installing php-mysql package.
In other words: if there is no such referenence, please verify that php-myql (or whatever the package may be called) is installed and configured correctly
Reinhard