On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:11 +0100, ABOKHALAF, Nassri Abdellatif wrote: > 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. > > Also, make sure you are not running selinux > > > > > -----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? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050916/adc459db/attachment-0005.sig>