This is a pretty good tutorial for doing the installation manually.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/12/0.php

RH9 comes with RPM's for everything you need if you just want to have a local development server and have no interest in compiling from source.

You can actually use the Services applet in RH9 to start the httpd and mysqld services manually or configure them to automatically start for your runlevel. Once you've installed the RPM and started httpd, you should be able to hit http://localhost and get the default installation page. If you have difficulties accessing from remote machines just remember the default install of RH9 has a full firewall enabled.

If you want to learn how to configure Apache, PHP, MySQL from source then this tutorial will get you to the point where you'll be comfortable enough with the process that you can then use the installation instructions from http://apache.org/, http://php.net, and http://mysql.com.

Hope this helps,

Mike

thanks for all the help guys but i thought i would let you know i think i have my webserver up and running and i actually ended up using slackware 9 instead of rh9. but i think im still goin to add webmin to my computer. o and to check out my site go to

http://www.kylekonline.com
if it even works that is

why dont you do this. download the tar / rpm file and then start from from installing the file.
just state the version number and then we will take it from there.

then on the email server , i think having postfix is better. it is simpler to use