New to debian, php problems with apt-get
 

Yesterday I got a vps account on a remote server with a stripped down install of debian. I am pretty excited to get away from redhat (a little too ms-like in mentality), but I'm really having a hard time just getting a LAMP solution in.

Excited about apt-get resolving dependency issues I jumped in.

# apt-get bind
(worked great)

# apt-get php5
# apt-get --purge remove php5
(decided to go with php4 instead)
# apt-get php4

# apt-get apache
(Hmm... installed 1.3, I was running 2 before)
# apt-get --purge remove apache
(Didn't seem to remove any init.d/rcX.d files.)
# apt-get httpd
(Uh... just going back to default)
# apt-get --purge remove httpd
# apt-get apache

# apt-get mysql-common mysql-client mysql-server

I go to domain, apache works great.

# touch /var/www/test.php
# echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" >> /var/www/test.php

Open Mozilla, go to mydomain.com/test.php. Tries to download php file.
Go into httpd.conf uncomment "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php"

# apachectl restart

Open Mozilla, go to mydomain.com/test.php, same problem. After hours of searching, re-apt-getting, and trying to manually recompile php. I am asking for help.

Also, I'm wondering if I can cleanly remove all the apt-get installs I've done, that didn't help me. I have limited hard drive space.

Thank you in advance

I guess you didn't configure Apache to enable php?

You have to install php as a module of Apache.

Thanks a lot.

In case others have this problem and end up here...

How to get LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql Php) going on Debian.

# apt-get install apache
# apt-get install php4
# apt-get install mysql-common mysql-client mysql-server
# apt-get install php4-mysql

# vi /etc/apache/httpd.conf

Uncomment the following 2 lines:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so

Thanks again!

Glad it's working for you now! :)