Apache not compiling even under root

Specs of server: 2.4GHz P4, 1GB Ram, 120GB hdd, Red Hat Linux 9.0, etc

When I try to compile the configure file by doing the following (copied from the install documents
./configure --prefix=PREFIX

Under root I get Permission denied, even if i do ./configure --help I get Permission denied.

I have never installed Apache on a linux box before, please help me.

 

 

 

 

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