Hi there,

Im new here and new to linux, I was going to post this in the newbies section, but felt it was a bit more specific than what else was in there.

A bit of background I think,

I got the SuSe version of Linux installed onto a machine I plan to use to host my own site and a few others at a later time.

What I would like to know is how I can set it up to do this hosting, that pages will be in PHP and MySQL so I know I will need to get them, I also assume I will need to get apache aswell, is this all correct?

The questions I have are these:

What do I do with them once I have them installed?
Is there an order to installing them?
Where do I put the web pages (e.g. in Windows they would go in the wwwroot folder and setup through IIS, but where in Linux?)?

Im sorry if this is the wrong place for this, its just Im wanting to know this information specific for SuSe.

Thank you for you help in advance.

Its as easy as one-two-three .. well almost : here is a perfect guide for you : Installing lamp stack on suse
It covers installing Apache, PHP and MySQL . Follow the guide and I'm quite sure you'll get everything working in no time.
REMEMBER to open port for http server in Firewall.

I don't know what version you are using and in what format(cd/dvd), but that guide has been done for suse 9.1.
If you have newer version of suse its even easyer.
In suse10 differences were in mysql usergroup and mysql folder rights handling. Some of those tasks had already been done by default.

Note that phpMyAdmin might be missing from the version you are using. Fortunately the guide also covers the aspect of getting it from net if its not available.

Default path for webpages is /srv/www/htdocs/

Notice that also users have their public_html directories shared in apache default config.
By this I mean that if you put page (lets say something.html) in /home/username/public_html/something.html
it is available for everybody in address : http://localhost/~username/something.html

First of all, what version of Suse did you installed? It is not very relevant if you installed one of 9.x versions !? maybe 10?

First of all: with Yast you install apache, php, php mod for mysql.

The apache configuration directory is: /etc/apache2/ .
The main config file: default-server.conf is where you make all the aliases.

DocumentRoot "/www/http/home/" >>>> this is the root directory.

Alias example:
Alias /forum "/www/http/phpBB2/"
<Directory "/www/http/phpBB2/">
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

The www root directory should be owned by wwwrun user. That is a system user.

Php configuration file is in: /etc/php.ini. It starts automatically with apache if installed.

You start apache with /etc/init.d/apache2 start
You start mysql with /etc/init.d/mysql start

...


That's in big lines...

Hope this helps.
Andy.

Thanks for the replies, Im having a look at the tutorial just now, Im using version 9.1 so it should be easy enough to do.


Thanks for the help.

While this article is actually for Windows the same principles apply to Linux.

Well worth a read in any case.

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Apach...under_Windows/

Cheers

-K

One more thing about php.
I would recommend installing these extra php packages, they'll come handy sooner or later

php-session - enable session functions in php
php-pear - extensions and small applications for php
php-gd - library for manipulating images