Dave, What you need is php, msql & apache. You can install all the packages via using yum First execute yum install php php-mysql httpd mysqlclient10 mysql-server yum will resolve all dependences for you and probably will install some additional packages that you may need. If you have some packages already installed yum will tell you ! After installation, you will have to start several services: service httpd start service mysqld start to test that your webserver is running you can use your local browser httpd://localhost the best way to test php is to put a phpinfo.php file in your webserver document root usually in /var/www/html/. Do the following: vi /var/www/html/phpinfo.php insert in the first line: <? phpinfo(); ?> To test php do the following: httpd://localhost/phpinfo.php it will show you your php configuration. Nassri > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Dave Gutteridge > Sent: sexta-feira, 16 de Setembro de 2005 11:52 > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] Are PHP and MySQL running on my CentOS installation? > > > When I was installing CentOS, I noticed among the list of components > that PHP and MySQL were available. I made sure they were selected > because I develop a lot of web sites in PHP/MySQL, but I always do my > testing on the server side. I thought it would be kind of cool if I > could do the testing and development on my home machine. > > Which is a long way of saying that I think I have PHP/MySQL on my > machine, but have no idea what the heck to do with them. I mean, I can > script PHP and write queries for MySQL, but don't know anything about > their set up and installation. > > I wrote a small test HTML page with basic head and body information, and > simply this PHP in the body: > <?php > echo 'hello world': > ?> > And then opened it in FireFox. As expected, it didn't display anything. > > So I went to my trusty friend, Google, and asked about it. But it's one > of those cases where people seem to assume that it's already installed, > and if it's installed, it's already working. The PHP site itself says > "We do not distribute UNIX/Linux binaries. Most Linux distributions come > with PHP these days" and then not much else about running it. > > Am I going to find myself in a whole new world of confusing settings and > configurations if I try to get PHP working on my home machine? > > Dave > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos