I am trying to set up a basic intranet server in my office to run MRBS. I have installed Redhat 8 with MySQL and php. I am trying to get everything operational. I have got apache running, and am able to see my index.html page when i go to http://localhost/ . However, I am unable to see anything with my phpinfo.php page. Is there anywhere that I can find out about how to get this all working? I have a bit of experence with SSHing into my shared webserver and doing things like cron jobs ect, but it feels really hard to just get this damn thing working as a server I'm getting really frustrated, some kind soul please point me in the right direction!

By defalut, apache looks for the file index.html in the /var/www/html directory. There should be a line in the apche.conf file that says that. I use webmin to configure servers like apache, samba, postfix and such. You might want to go to webmin.com and check it out.

do you have the right rpm-s installed. do

rpm -qa | grep php

php works fine with default for me... though i hade to open httpd service. i have

asp2php-gtk-0.76.2-3
php-dbg-client-2.10-6
php-manual-4.2.2-8.0.7
php-devel-4.2.2-8.0.7
php-dbg-base-2.10-4
php-imap-4.2.2-8.0.7
php-odbc-4.2.2-8.0.7
php-ldap-4.2.2-8.0.7
asp2php-0.76.2-3
php-pgsql-4.2.2-8.0.7
php-4.2.2-8.0.7
php-snmp-4.2.2-8.0.7
php-dbg-server-2.10pl3-6
php-mysql-4.2.2-8.0.7

Have you set you set httpd.conf to tell Apache what to do with .php files?

When I do that command, I get:

php-imap-4.2.2-8.0.7
php-pgsql-4.2.2-8.0.7
php-4.2.2-8.0.7
php-ldap-4.2.2-8.0.7

Is that enough to get it going? Man, I am getting SO confused and frustrated. I have tried getting my network card working to get on the net to download WEBMIN.. no luck, I have tried downloading the rpm on this windows box then spliting it with WINrar and floppying it accross, cant get the damn floppy to work on the linux box (I can format it, I just cant read it)! It should just be in /mnt/floppy right?

*sigh* thank for your quick replies, I am so fed up here trying to get this stuff to work... sorry, I am a Windows man, I want to get into linux, but I don't really 'get' it :-( it feels like swiming in treacle! I thought Redhat was supposed to be easy!

Any - no, I havent, and I'm scared to try, coz the last time I edited one of those files, it screwed up the system and I had to reinstall :-/ I should be able to edit them with gedit, right?

Don't give up. Go to a Barnes and Nobles or some other book store and pick up a book on Read Hat 8. Trust me once you get into Linux you'll love (and sometime hate) it.

Cheers tangle - yeh, maybe that would be an idea, but I was wanting to get this running real soon for my office here... I suppose I'm frustrated because the damn thing doesn't just work 'out the box'... why is it made so hard?

woohoo!

I got the floppy to work... weird I have to mount mnt/floppy everytime I put a new floppy in... THEN I installed WINrar on my linux box, AND THEN I instaled the rpm of webmin!! AND it is all working!

All I need to do now is get the damn php fired up, and figure out MySQL, then install MRBS and get that going, figure out how to run backups of the database, teach everyone else how to use it all, then I can retire :-D

Gedit will be fine. its nothing hard, just one line

The php install file tells you everything you need to know. Have you had a look at the install documentation on the php site?

Im sure there is somewhere to get an easy to install php/apache/sql package but i cant find it now, sorry. Maybe someone else will know about it.