SUCCESS - Getting Apache/PHP/Mysql working on Debian Potato
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Well after my frantic squawking its not cooking along nicely!
For the record and so everyone knows for the next time an
inexperienced (dare i say incompetent) user like myself comes along,
this is what i did wrong and this is how it got fixed...
apt-get install apache
apacheconfig told me i had to edit httpd.conf to set the apache root
directory (might have my terms wrong here but i hope the meaning is
clear)
having seen this dir in a lot of different places (/home/httpd on
redhat, /usr/local/apache/www on BSD) i decided to get creative and
/usr/apache seemed like a nice place i'd remember.
at no point that i could see in the install was the correct /var/www
suggested to me.
i then installed php3 which is where i hit a snag... the setup of
php3, in particular the running of apacheconfig wouldn't
automatically load the module...
feeling brave i went into httpd.conf and uncommented the appropriate
line, and restarted apache
still no luck...
somewhat later i found out about /var/www (BTW i do think /var is the
best place for this) and changed the httpd.conf to reflect this.
Bingo (mind you apacheconfig still wasn't working quite to spec, i
was editing the conf file myself and restarting the server)
php3 was now working...
Mysql was not
apt-get install php3-mysql
buzzed and whirred but didn't help. and the setup offered no
suggestions about editing files.
help from kind people on this list told me about adding
extension=mysql.so to the php3.ini file...
now it all works!!
i have to say i feel a teensy bit let down by the package maintainers
having said that i have learnt a lot about the inner workings of the
systems i'm using - this was positive for me but others might like
things to work as advertised.
Regards and thanks for the help and patience of everyone here,
John
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