Installing Apache

Gins · 09-11-2005, 10:00 AM

[ka@c83-250-94-135 ka]$ cd /usr/local/apache/
[ka@c83-250-94-135 apache]$ ls

bin/ cgi-bin/ conf/ htdocs/ icons/ include/ libexec/ logs/ man/ proxy/ trial1.php
[ka@c83-250-94-135 apache]$ cd htdocs/

[ka@c83-250-94-135 htdocs]$ ls
apache_pb.gif index.html.en index.html.kr.iso-kr index.html.pt-br index.html.ru.utf8
index.html.ca index.html.es index.html.lb.utf8 index.html.ru.cp-1251 index.html.se
index.html.cz index.html.fr index.html.nl index.html.ru.cp866 index.html.zh-tw.big5
index.html.de index.html.he.iso8859-8 index.html.nn

index.html.ru.iso-ru manual/
index.html.dk

index.html.hu

index.html.no

index.html.ru.koi8-r

trial1.php

index.html.ee index.html.it

index.html.po.iso-pl index.html.ru.ucs2
index.html.el index.html.ja.jis index.html.pt index.html.ru.ucs4
[ka@c83-250-94-135 htdocs]$

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[ka@c83-250-94-135 htdocs]$ cat 'trial1.php'

<html>
<head></head>
<body>

Agent: So who do you think you are, anyhow?
<br />

<?php
// print output
echo 'Neo: I am Neo, but my people call me The One.';
?>

</body>
</html>
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The above is the .php file.

As you see there is a file called trial1.php in my htdocs folder. I tried in vain to open it using the firefox browser.
What is the problem?

Nylex · 09-11-2005, 10:02 AM

What happens when you point your browser to the page?

Gins · 09-11-2005, 10:07 AM

I don't know how to point the browser to a page whereas I know how to open a file with the browser.

I guess my .php file is flawed. Please read it.

Nylex · 09-11-2005, 10:17 AM

Well what happens? I can't see anything wrong with your file. Are you getting errors or anything??

Also, you just needed to put "localhost/trial1.php" in the address bar (without the quotes) and press Enter.

Gins · 09-11-2005, 10:27 AM

Nothing happened.

[ka@c83-250-94-135 ka]$ localhost/trial1.php
bash: localhost/trial1.php: No such file or directory
[ka@c83-250-94-135 ka]$

Nylex · 09-11-2005, 10:29 AM

In the address bar of your browser..

Gins · 09-11-2005, 10:35 AM

It worked.

http://localhost/trial1.php

The following is the output.
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<html>
<head></head>
<body>

Agent: So who do you think you are, anyhow?
<br />

<?php
// print output
echo 'Neo: I am Neo, but my people call me The One.';
?>

</body>
</html>

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Nylex · 09-11-2005, 10:37 AM

Do you have PHP installed?

Gins · 09-11-2005, 10:40 AM

Yes, I installed it yesterday with the help of some people who contributes this site. You get the details here. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=361818

Nylex · 09-11-2005, 10:48 AM

Ah ok, it's just that Apache isn't configured for use with PHP yet. Have a look here for instructions.

Gins · 09-11-2005, 11:01 AM

I successfully installed the Apache about an hour ago. Read the following message I got at the end.
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You now have successfully built and installed the |
| Apache 1.3 HTTP server. To verify that Apache actually |
| works correctly you now should first check the |
| (initially created or preserved) configuration files |
| |
| /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
| |
| and then you should be able to immediately fire up |
| Apache the first time by running: |
| |
| /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
| |
| Thanks for using Apache. The Apache Group |
| http://www.apache.org/

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I checked the 'httpd.cconf' file. It is there.

Aftewards, I ran it by typing ' apachectl start ' . This too worked. So the house is in order.

Do you think something else is missing?

Nylex · 09-11-2005, 11:03 AM

But is it configured for PHP? Look at the steps from 13 onwards in that link.

Edit: you may need to recompile Apache if you didn't include --enable-module=so as directed.

Gins · 09-11-2005, 11:35 AM

This configuration is a tall oredr for me. It wants me to configur the 'httpd.conf' file.
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14. Edit your httpd.conf to load the PHP module. The path on the right hand
side of the LoadModule statement must point to the path of the PHP
module on your system. The make install from above may have already
added this for you, but be sure to check.

For PHP 4:

LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so

For PHP 5:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/libphp5.so

15. And in the AddModule section of httpd.conf, somewhere under the
ClearModuleList, add this:

For PHP 4:

AddModule mod_php4.c

For PHP 5:

AddModule mod_php5.c
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There is no line called ' LoadModule ' in that file. Shall I post the long file here? It is a long one.

Gins · 09-11-2005, 11:42 AM

#
<IfModule mod_mime_magic.c>
MIMEMagicFile /usr/local/apache/conf/magic
</IfModule>

#
# HostnameLookups: Log the names of clients or just their IP addresses
# e.g., www.apache.org (on) or 204.62.129.132 (off).
# The default is off because it'd be overall better for the net if people
# had to knowingly turn this feature on, since enabling it means that
# each client request will result in AT LEAST one lookup request to the
# nameserver.

Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#
#<Directory /home/*/public_html>
# AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
# Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
# <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
# Order allow,deny
# Allow from all
# </Limit>
# <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# </LimitExcept>
#</Directory>

#
# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML
# directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.
#
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>

#
# AccessFileName: The name of the file to look for in each directory
# for access control information.
#
AccessFileName .htaccess

#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess files from being viewed by
# Web clients. Since .htaccess files often contain authorization
# information, access is disallowed for security reasons. Comment
# these lines out if you want Web visitors to see the contents of

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/"

#
# "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
#
<Directory "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

</IfModule>
# End of aliases.

#
# Redirect allows you to tell clients about documents which used to exist in
# your server's namespace, but do not anymore. This allows you to tell the
# clients where to look for the relocated document.
# Format: Redirect old-URI new-URL
#

#
# Directives controlling the display of server-generated directory listings.
#
<IfModule mod_autoindex.c>

#
# FancyIndexing is whether you want fancy directory indexing or standard
#
IndexOptions FancyIndexing

#

I have posted a few lines of the 'httpd.conf' file for your information.

Nylex · 09-11-2005, 11:42 AM

I think you're gonna need to recompile Apache because you didn't have "--enable-module=so" when you ran configure, so you won't be able to use the LoadModule lines.