PHP Tutorial

MacMurphy · 01-03-2005, 12:59 AM

I am new to Linux in general and have a Slackware 10 full installation.
I am trying to follow a php tutorial at:
http://au.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.firstpage.php

It says to save the file created in the web server's root directory, can someone clarify exactly for me where this means ?

Is it /var/www/htdocs ?

Thanks

Murphy

MacMurphy · 01-03-2005, 03:49 AM

Solved.

See http://shilo.is-a-geek.com/slack/intro0.html

This guy deserves a medal for his excellent work here

Thanks

MacMurphy

reddazz · 01-03-2005, 04:52 AM

For Slackware it is indeed /var/www/htdocs, but I configured my webserver so that when I am developing websites, I can just save my documents in my home directory instead of the root directory. All you need to do is configure the apache server to allow users to point to ~/public_html. I use webmin to administer my system, so everything is done centrally.

cccc828 · 01-03-2005, 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by reddazz
For Slackware it is indeed /var/www/htdocs, but I configured my webserver so that when I am developing websites, I can just save my documents in my home directory instead of the root directory. All you need to do is configure the apache server to allow users to point to ~/public_html. I use webmin to administer my system, so everything is done centrally.

As configuring the webserver can be tricky, if you do not know what you are doing, you can just link a directory in ~ to the server root.:

Code:

mkdir ~/www
su
rm -rf /var/www/htdocs
ln -s /home/foo/www /var/www/htdocs

cccc828