Apache php postgres headaches
 

The main problem is all the guides I can find on the net are not Mandriva specific.

I Installed Mandriva (Free 2006 edition) and chose the apache
php and postgres packages.

There is a web serve running, at least I get a page when I go to http://localhost an html doc with "It works" on it. But I have no idea if it is apache or another default installed server.

Does anyone know where Mandriva hides the /apache/htdocs folder this is where I believe I need to put an index.php with
the code
I have read that I need to set up an account for postgres but I'll tackle later when I at least know php and apache are running.

Any help welcome and sorry if this is a bit scatty my head is spinning from trawling the mandriva files system

Thanks

The default is /var/www/html. The setting is DocumentRoot in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file.
Apache would be the default webserver and if postgresql was selected when you installed Mandriva then the postgres user should already be created.

thanks for the help

Having found httpd.conf php refuses to work
 

Wasn't sure whether to re post here or start a new thread, also there is a similar thread (same problems) over at software/server

My httpd.conf had no mention of php anywhere so I have added

LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache-extramodules/mod_php5.so

and

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .html
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps



I also have added index.php to list under the heading

<ifModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex
</IfModule>

as that was suggested in a tutorial

I have also tried using

<IfModule mod_php5.so>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .html
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>

AND

AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php .phtml .html
AddType application/x-httpd-php5-source .phps

Nothing seems to work, I have been stopping and restarting Apache after each change. The furthest I have got was firefox asking what I wanted index.php opened with, but I can't remember which version of the httpd.conf I had for that.

There seem to be a lot tutorials out there none of those I have followed result in working php. Most of them go from not having Apache/Php installed so I wonder if this is my problem. I have a fresh install of Mandriva 2006 and selected the Apache and php packages.

Any help very welcome. Thanks