Have you been able to determine if Apache is working? If you have it installed properly, you should be able to access the It Works page by entering the following in your browser: http://localhost/index.html

In Opensuse, you should have the index.html file under /srv/www/htdocs
The info.php file should go there also.

In Mint, they would go under /var/www/

The info.php file should contain this code:

I'm not sure what you mean by "downloaded it" as all you need to do is copy the line above in a text editor and save it to the correct directory as info.php

If you are using Opensuse, you might review the instructions at the link below to see what you are missing:

http://www.howtoforge.com/installing...suse-12.2-lamp

Using Suse 12.2, trying to get LAMP working;

Apache is working the localhost shows the index page. The php info is in my index.html page. the php.ini is in the document root. So apache must be working because it index .html comes up when I look with a browser at localhost. The MYSQL works OK.

Using mint I have not had any joy, because I cannot load from the servers (ubuntu) the apache. I have a command that I can try which loads the LAMP.

Anything, I can try as I do not want to give up on suse?

I'm not sure what you mean. Did you copy this code into your index.html page?
I would not expect that to work. It should be copied to a file and saved with a .php extension, EX: info.php, test.php, or whatever. Put it in the same directory in which you have the index.html file. Maybe I'm not reading your post correctly?

I don't have Opensuse LAMP installed but the php.ini file is usually in the /etc directory.
So what doesn't work on Opensuse?

php doesnt work, apache and mysql do work.

I think the best is to use mint where there is a lamp command.

I have loaded mint 13 and I am dual booting with suse 12.2 and have tried both of your suggested commands with mint;

sudo service mysql start which says no such service and

sudo apt-get install lamp-server which says unable to locate package.

I was connected to the internet so I have no idea what is wrong.

Update I have succeded in getting mysql to work in mint.

The command was sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.5

Can you find out what the lamp-server is called that you used?

The command to install it on Mint is: sudo apt-get install lamp-server^
You need the "^" at the end of the command or it won't work. On an American English keyboard, hold down the shift key and hit the numeral 6 key.

If you have apache and mysql running, I'm not sure what problems you might encounter if you now run this command, maybe none??

Copy the code above into a text editor. Save it as info.php. Copy or move it to /var/www/ directory. Open firefox or whichever web browser you are using. Enter in the address box: http://localhost/info.php. You should get all the php output. If not, open a terminal and copy and paste the command below, hit the enter key. You should also get some output. If that doesn't work, php isn't install correctly or the php module for apache isn't installed. When you make changes, you need to restart apache also:

Restart apache with: sudo service apache2 restart.

The link below has some good info on a lamp server setup. It is specific to Ubuntu but it should all be the same as Mint is based on Ubuntu.

http://ubuntuarena.wordpress.com/net...ntulinux-mint/

Thanks will try that ^ is upper case 6 on my notebook HP635. I guess this means any number
highest?

It has worked and loaded apache and localhost shows "It works"
I have used the info.php code and included in the index.html page.
I have now the info.php? It works!

I am really grateful and thank you for your help and forbearance
getting me there in the end.

Glad you got it working. Sometimes it is the smallest things (^) which cause the biggest problems.

Thanks for your help without it I would never have it working, have a happy new year.

Thanks again for all your help. I now have full LAMP on both distros.