[sclug] php problems

[Stuart Major]

Tom Chance wrote:

>On Saturday 03 Sep 2005 00:01, Stuart Major wrote:
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>>Running Suse 9.0 on my box and uploading to a site that has php
>>programming and MySQL but not MySQL web interface.
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>>http://www.greenwebhost.net/hostingfeatures.htm
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>>Do I need this or do I need to upload phpMyAdmin?
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>Have you been following the INSTALL.txt file?
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Hi Tom,

Apologies for  being so thick, but which INSTALL.txt file?

I've uploaded what I think I need, the whole directory that I had on my box.

Thanks, Stuart.

> According to that you need to go 
>through various steps, including:
>
>1 - Upload the files
>2 - Run a script to set permissions (needs shell access), or do it manually
>3 - Visit the URL of the set-up script via your web browser
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>Once you're at step three, there appears to be a set-up script that will do 
>all the fun database / configuration stuff. Do you know the details for the 
>database? You'll need the hostname (usually localhost), database name, 
>username and password.
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>>How do I tell Apache about the .php files, I have a index.php file that
>>I presume initiates the site in some way?
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>Your host should have already set-up Apache to recognise index.php as an index 
>file, so that visiting www.exmaple.com/ will load www.example.com/index.php 
>automatically. You can test this simply by trying the two alternative URLs 
>out! You can also check PHP functionality by uploading a script called 
>"test.php" with the following content: <?php phpinfo() ?>
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>Visiting www.example.com/test.php should load up a page full if info about 
>your PHP installation. If instead you get a plain text file with the source 
>code in it, your host isn't set-up to deal with PHP properly or you need to 
>fiddle with permissions.
>
>Hope that helps,
>Regards,
>Tom
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