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Right now I have a shared hosting with Cpanel. I want to be able to host my sites on my own server.
For example, I have two domains, right now with the hosting company;
domain1.com points to /home/user/public_html/domain1
domain2.com points to /home/user/public_html/domain2
I can install linux, setup apache and i'll probably be able to easily setup mysql.
I'm not clear on setting up DNS server on the machine so I change DNS in my enom account to my IP address.
Also email handling would be something I don't know how to do.
I have a webserver running on fedora core 5 and when I try to load a php file, like index.php, browser tries to save the file instead of displaying it - html files display fine. Any other external sites work fine. What would cause this and how would I fix it?
You have to make sure php is installed. Then you have to make sure Apache is loading the php modules. It sounds like that is your problem. Otherwise, Apache would pass the php files to the php interpreter for processing and you would get back an html file instead of a prompt to save the file.
Once you restart apache create a php file with the line: phpinfo();
Then place it in your web server's document root directory and try loading it into your web browser: http://127.0.0.1/phpinfo.php.
If you get a nice page listing all of the settings for php, it worked.
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