After Apache was installed and running, the next step was to install MySQL because the PHP configure script needed to know where it was. I unpacked the MySQL package that I had and followed the ...

Enter WampServer, an open source product that installs a PHP-apps-ready platform consisting of Apache web server, MySQL database, PHP, plus several helpful GUI-based utilities.

Nusphere's $79 MySQL v1.13.6 is an integrated MySQL/Apache/Perl/PHP kit that can save developers -- especially less experienced ones -- a good deal of time setting up a full-featured and up-to ...

I wouldn't be afraid of compiling my own Apache, PHP, or anything else I needed, but then again - I don't know if/how RedHat patch those sources and what (if any) enhancements I'd be missing out on.