geoffmat

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I am new to this and using OpenSUSE 10.2. I originally posted in the programming forum but realized that this is probably such a newbie error that it belonged here, so here it goes :-):

I had the SUSE install program go ahead and install MySQL and PHP5 as wellnwhile I set up the operating system. When I run the "PHP Test" file that comes with it everything works great (even if I change the extension from .php5 to .php). However, when I tried my own test:
<?php

echo "If this works, we <i>really</i> did it!";

?>

and saved this as "phptest.php" I received the following error:

Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required '/srv/www/htdocs/phptest.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php5:/usr/share/php5/PEAR') in Unknown on line 0

I looked at the aforementioned directories and they appear to all have the "755" permissions. I also tried renaming the file to .php5 and it worked (??). But f I put HTML (i.e. <TITLE>PHPTest</TITLE> with appropriate added tags, it gives me the same error again.

I am running Apache 2, if that helps. My guess is there is some configuration I need to change somewhere. Anyone have any ideas?

Sorry for the long post.

Thanks
Geoff

geoffmat

I was able to get this answered in another thread:

If using the extension .php5 works but .php doesn't then I suspect that it is an apache error. You will need to modify the httpd.conf script (or a configuration file called by this script -- sorry I don't know how it is set up in SUSE) The lines you want to look for are as follows:


Code:
# Load php - you should have this since .php5 works
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so

# Cause the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension.
AddHandler php5-script .php
AddType text/html .php

# Add index.php to the list of files that will be served as default
DirectoryIndex index.php__________________

Thanks!

mandaksk

You need to check the permissions of every file created within.
If you see the permissions on '/srv/www/htdocs/phptest.php' it will be 700. For every new file you create in /srv/www/htdocs dir, it will be 700 (suppose you have permissions to write to that dir).

Changing every file permissions to 705 worked for me.