PHP on Ubuntu

sklitzz · 12-13-2007, 08:26 AM

I cant get it working. It seems that apache is running but when
I try to run a php script on my localhost it just offers it for
download and it doesnt parse it and compile and so on. What should
I do? Is there something that I need to put in the http.conf?
Is there a good tutorial on this subject?

Thanks in advance

dkm999 · 12-13-2007, 11:49 AM

On my Linux systems (Fedora), there is a config directory /etc/httpd/conf.d, which contains the necessary extra lines to make Apache interpret PHP instead of just serving it up as text. The relevant config lines are

Code:

LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
AddHandler php5-script .php
AddType text/html .php
DirectoryIndex .php

Your file layout may be different on your distribution, but these config lines need to be seen by Apache on startup somehow, either in the main httpd.conf file or in an included config file (on my system, this happens because partway down in the main file there is a line that says

Quote:

Include conf.d/*.conf

Of course, if the PHP stuff is not installed on your system, this configuration stuff won't help, but at least then you will get a complaint from the Apache httpd on startup, saying that it cannot find libphp5.so, or something like that.

whk · 12-15-2007, 03:29 PM

The best one I've seen is here.

you need to know the following:
"sudo nano" at the command line or "gksudo gedit"
or "vi"

Also on your browser use
http://localhost/<name of file>.php

hth & gl

sklitzz · 12-16-2007, 03:46 AM

Thank you both. I got it working