If your PHP site uses or will use a mysql database, you'll need this package.
Where was the email supposed to "go"? Local or off-host?

CentOS version...?

I agree with unSpawn, your progress is very commendable.

The only php I could find so far was all for forms that just send an email of the form data to different folks. So, at least at this point, I'm going to see if I can get by without install MySQL on the new server.

Looks like sendmail is timing out talking to my mail relay, off host, from my virtual machine. But I figure that's a lot easier of an issue to tackle, if it's even still an issue, once i'm on the real server. For how my attempt at xampp was going, the fact that it's actually logging something in there is a big step.

CentOS 6.5

Thanks guys, I'd still be banging my head against a wall if it weren't for you two.

Shortly here i'm going to try to kill my xampp disaster, then install apache and php and see where that gets me.

My two test php forms work PERFECTLY on the real server!!!

Question though on what you think is the best way to get the actual html, php, jpgs, etc out of the existing xampp and into /var/www/html on the new server? I know unSpawn said rsync the docroot over, but I'm almost afraid of how much useless stuff I'd be bringing over (they don't have a real good inventory/idea of what's still in use and what's not).

Should I really just copy it all over and see what happens? Is there a program that could crawl the main 'homepage' of it and see what's still used, that would include any .php .jpg .whatever files with it, then I could move that over? I'm not sure what the best practice is in this situation, so just looking for opinions here.

I still can't get over how much easier the "right way" is haha

Probably the "real server's" IP is in either a firewall rule that allows that IP or in the "trusted hosts" directive of the receiving server's mail service configuration.

Hard to tell. You could try telnet <mailrelay_ip> 25 and see what's what... ;)
Can you send mail from the VM's host (not the guest) to the mail relay?

I'd copy everything over unless space is an issue.

You're probably right about the trusted IP thing.

Yeah, I'm thinking about just copying everything, that way it's all there, even if most of it is garbage at this point. Guess I'll just do an rsync of the folder containing all the files on the old server, and have it duplicate that folder under /var/www/html then.

if you can to offer a prompt on the host, you could install postfix on the guest and use the Smarthost configuration to send mail to the mail_relay.

OK, I will give it a shot later.

Hey guys. Kinda related to this but definitely off topic from my first post, but I'm going to ask.

So now that I have a fancy, non-lampp web server with sendmail working with my php forms, how do I back this thing up? haha

define "up"... please.

Glad to see you're making progress!

Got everything working on the new server!
But I'm not sure about backing it up. Is there an "official" way or do I just rsync some folders?

doh, I definately mis-read "back this thing up" for backup. Long day.
rsync is my choice.

No problem. Ok. I'll just setup rsyncs of the stuff. Do I need to stop processes first or you think I can skip doing that jazz.

Really depends on how much writing is going on in the directories you wish to backup.

Very, very minimal, and not at the hours i'd be running the rsync.

I was thinking of backing up /var/www and then /etc. For what I'm doing, do you think that covers it?

I'd use something like this:
/var/www/siteX may be /var/www/html/siteX and /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default would be your path to the apache conf files for any sites included in the backup.