Re: apache and phpwebsite

[psychoelmo <psychoelmo@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:35:21 -0400, Harland Christofferson
<debian-user@zerocrossings.com> wrote:
> i am trying to virtual host using apache. i have several hosts already
> but, for some reason, I haven't been able to get phpwebsite to work
> out.
> 
> in /etc/httpd.conf i have:
> 
> Listen 8080
> 
>     .
>     .
>     .
> 
> #
> # Alias for phpwebsite added 10/12/04 by hhc
> #
> 
> Alias /setup/index.html /var/www/phpwebsite-0.9.3-4-full/setup/index.php
> <Directory /var/www/phpwebsite-0.9.3-4-full/setup/index.php>
>   Options ExecCGI Includes FollowSymlinks
>   AddHandler cgi-script .php .cgi .sh .pl
> </Directory>
> 
> Alias /phpwebsite-0.9.3-4-full/index.html /var/www/phpwebsite-0.9.
> 3-4-full/index.php
> <Directory /var/www/phpwebsite-0.9.3-4-full/index.php>
>   Options ExecCGI Includes FollowSymlinks
>   AddHandler cgi-script .php .cgi .sh .pl
> </Directory>
> 
>     .
>     .
>     .
> 
> <VirtualHost *:8080>
>     DocumentRoot /var/www/phpwebsite-0.9.3-4-full
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> i would think that the url: http://www.mydomain.com:8080/ would present
> the aliased path /var/www/phpwebsite-0.9.3-4-full/index.php
> 
> but a server error:
> 
> Warning: main(PEAR.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory
> in /var/www/phpwebsite-0.9.3-4-full/core/Core.php on line 33
> 
> Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'PEAR.php' (include_path='.
> :/lib/pear/') in /var/www/phpwebsite-0.9.3-4-full/core/Core.php on
> line 33
> 
> the core/Core.php file appears w/ r-x permissions in the path.
> 


you have the required pear libs installed? pws also requires more
memory for php than the default.. (they recommend 12mb, default is 8;
i run with 16mb because of another script package i run).

see http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/downloads/rsync/stable/phpwebsite/docs/REQUIREMENTS.txt
and http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/downloads/rsync/stable/phpwebsite/docs/PEARERRORS.txt

and instead of aliasing the filename, and setup directory separately,
just one alias for the phpwebsite root is enough.  also, if pws is not
set up, it will run the web install script automatically if you hit
the site root...

havent installed a pws in awhile.. was going to soon anyhow to see
what's new, so why not now?   :)

here's a quick rundown of my pws install process (exactly what i just
did while writing this), using sarge and apache2, etc.. installed from
deb's repositories (along with php4-pear, php4-mysql, php4 via apache2
mod, gd, im, etc..) note that what i installed with apt(itude) met the
pear requirements for pws, i didnt have to install/use the pear libs
that come with pws.

i started an ssh session as my normal user, which is where i install
web scripts i'm testing.
cd ~/public_html
mkdir pws
cd pws

wget http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/install

chmod +x install

./install

(give it a few minutes, there's no screen output while it downloads
the tarball, and thats the first thing the script does)

rm install

(then as superuser... edit php and apache configs)

nano -w /etc/php4/apache2/php.ini
    ctrl-w search for: memory
    increase memory_limit to 12M or higher (default is 8M)
(i didnt have to do this, as mine was already increased for something else)

nano -w /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/pws-test
   alias /pws /home/admin/public_html/pws
   <directory /home/admin/public_html/pws>
   options followsymlinks multiviews
   allowoverride fileinfo
   </directory>
(you'd put this in your virtualhost configuration)

restart apache2


create db for pws via phpmyadmin (or manually if you prefer)

browse to http://pwsroot  (as defined by the alias, i.e.
http://www.mydomain.com/pws in this example)
   if pws is not configured, the web install script starts automatically.