my, oh my. suse linux is pretty dumb. too dumb to correctly install php as additional apache module. instead they try to load ssl which is not available. they need yast3 or something else. however, who needs php anyway? well, still for some time i do. fortunately i was able to configure httpd.conf manually. but it took too much time. so i could not finish set-up and still need to run everything the old way (ie. winnt mode). darn.