On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 14:11 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > Thank you for the helpful advice. I have not yet undertaken some of the > steps recommended here, but I will soon and report back anything that > requires further clarification. > > But I did want to speak to this issue of whether or not this is an > appropriate place to address these issues. > > First, let me clarify that this issue is not how to run PHP or MySQL in > general. It's that I thought I had installed these applications when I > installed CentOS. To determine whether or not they are working is in > part a matter of trying to find out how much I can assume about the > CentOS installation process. Was the PHP application offered in the > installer the full PHP service I need to run PHP scripts on my computer? > I think this is at least, in some ways, related to CentOS, as it's > CentOS which is the environment that has determined what version of PHP > I'm running and what settings it has. > > But further than that, when I was first looking for a Linux > distribution, one of my criteria was trying to find one that had a large > and helpful community of support. For the most part, this list and the > CentOS community has met that need. > > But I will have questions where, like in this instance, I am not so sure > about the borders between the application and the operating system, and > I need help clarifying that so that I can take my queries to the right > place for the right reasons. I mean, I don't understand why questions I, > and others, have had about installing and configuring (and even running) > KDE, Gnome, Gpilot, YUM, and installing OpenOffice and other > applications were answered here without comment about their suitability > for this list, but how to install and configure PHP is deemed > inappropriate. > > I'm looking for a community that is looking to help me get into the > world of Linux, via their distribution. If the CentOS community is not > that kind of community, one that helps Newbies, then that would be a > little sad as I've invested so much work in getting CentOS to meet my > needs, and I've felt that overall the CentOS community has been very > welcoming. But if this group, or it's moderators, do not have the > patience to help a newbie who does not know why a YUM installation > question is on topic but a PHP installation question isn't, please > direct me to the community and or distribution that is. ---- No - it was appropriate - you should feel free to ask away. I think Karanbir was a bit too jumpy from other threads this week. All of the Red Hat lists are un-moderated and they work. There are no 'rules' as of this point - at least none published on the web site. At this point, there are no moderators and you should feel free to post your questions. Sometimes things get off-topic and that's not the worst thing. You shouldn't have to configure php and apache at all if you put your files in /var/www/html. If you put them anywhere else, you undoubtedly would have to do some configuration (system-config-httpd) if necessary, edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf and if necessary... http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/ http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux- guide/ Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.