[Klug-general] LAMP start up problem

Mon Jul 23 10:40:29 UTC 2012

Good morning all,
As a part of my plan to limit the atrophying of my ageing brain I am 
working through 'PHP & MySQL for Dummies'. I think I have got apache 
installed OK because when I point firefox at localhost I get the 'It's 
working' response. So I then composed the following script, called it 
test.php and stored it in /var/www:

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<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is an HTML line
<p>
<?php
   echo "This is a PHP line";
   phpinfo();
?>
</body></html>

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When I point firefox at it I get a huge table of dozens of properties 
which baffle me. But it seems to indicate that php is also working.

The next step in the book is to generate a mysql db so from the CLI I 
went through generating mydb, user mick and a simple password. However, 
there is no data in this DB.

Then to test that I composed the following script, called it test2.php 
and added it to /var/www:

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<?php

$host = "localhost";
$user = "mick";
$pass = "simplepassword";

$r = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass);

if (!$r) {
     echo "Could not connect to server\n";
     trigger_error(mysql_error(), E_USER_ERROR);
} else {
     echo "Connection established\n";
}

echo mysql_get_server_info() . "\n";

mysql_close();

?>

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When I point firefox at localhost/test2 I get a completely clear screen. 
It neither seems to work or return the error. It is supposed to return a 
different table of parameters etc.

Am I doing something stupid here/ If anyone can help an aged beginner I 
would be most grateful. I've been banging my head against this for 
several days and the book isn't any help as it expects the text to 'just 
work' and it don't.

MikeR
in Folkestone
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