Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-26 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 17:45 +0100, e-letter wrote: > On 20/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > You don't have to reinstall the entire OS, that's a very Windows > > approach to the problem. I played around a bit last night with urpmi and > > you should be able to just list the packages you need wi

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-26 Thread e-letter
On 20/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > You don't have to reinstall the entire OS, that's a very Windows > approach to the problem. I played around a bit last night with urpmi and > you should be able to just list the packages you need with urpmq --fuzzy > package_name, and then install the ones l

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 10:00 +0100, e-letter wrote: > On 19/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > No, because Apache doesn't need to process HTML in the same way it needs > > to process PHP. The tag > browser as HTML (view the source on the page you're browsing to) and > > interpreted as a tag by y

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-20 Thread e-letter
On 19/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > No, because Apache doesn't need to process HTML in the same way it needs > to process PHP. The tag browser as HTML (view the source on the page you're browsing to) and > interpreted as a tag by your browser, hence what appears to be partially > processed ou

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 18:09 -0400, David McGlone wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 22:24 +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 19:04 +0100, e-letter wrote: > > > On 19/08/2010, HallMarc Websites wrote: > > > > I agree with the earlier take on this situation; you need to start at

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread David McGlone
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 22:24 +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 19:04 +0100, e-letter wrote: > > On 19/08/2010, HallMarc Websites wrote: > > > I agree with the earlier take on this situation; you need to start at the > > > beginning and learn the basics regarding the technologie

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 19:04 +0100, e-letter wrote: > On 19/08/2010, HallMarc Websites wrote: > > I agree with the earlier take on this situation; you need to start at the > > beginning and learn the basics regarding the technologies BEFORE you try and > > manage them. You're trying to drive a car

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread e-letter
On 19/08/2010, HallMarc Websites wrote: > I agree with the earlier take on this situation; you need to start at the > beginning and learn the basics regarding the technologies BEFORE you try and > manage them. You're trying to drive a car when you don't even know what or > car is and how to operat

RE: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread HallMarc Websites
-Original Message- From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 11:33 AM To: e-letter Cc: David McGlone; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] tutorial failure On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 16:30 +0100, e-letter wrote: > On 19/08/2010, Ash

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 16:30 +0100, e-letter wrote: > On 19/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > As Colin suggested on another email, check to see if apache-mod_php was > > installed too. It seems likely that it wasn't for some reason. > > How to verify please? Also, the instruction to use task-la

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread e-letter
On 19/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > As Colin suggested on another email, check to see if apache-mod_php was > installed too. It seems likely that it wasn't for some reason. How to verify please? Also, the instruction to use task-lamp; it seems this is for mysql but the database to be used is

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 15:35 +0100, e-letter wrote: > On 19/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > I think it's fairly clear that for whatever reason, PHP isn't properly > > configured with Apache. You've mentioned you're using Mandriva, which, > > coincidentally, is what i've just recently installed

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread e-letter
On 19/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > I think it's fairly clear that for whatever reason, PHP isn't properly > configured with Apache. You've mentioned you're using Mandriva, which, > coincidentally, is what i've just recently installed on my home machine. > It has a very good graphical package

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 09:41 +0100, e-letter wrote: > On 19/08/2010, David McGlone wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 23:08 +0100, e-letter wrote: > >> On 18/08/2010, David McGlone wrote: > >> > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 21:54 +0100, e-letter wrote: > >> >> On 18/08/2010, David McGlone wrote: > >> >>

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread e-letter
On 19/08/2010, David McGlone wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 23:08 +0100, e-letter wrote: >> On 18/08/2010, David McGlone wrote: >> > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 21:54 +0100, e-letter wrote: >> >> On 18/08/2010, David McGlone wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Do you have php5 installed? >> >> > >> >> Yes, but don

RE: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread Bob McConnell
From: e-letter > On 19/08/2010, David McGlone wrote: > >> Yes it is. But your computer needs the correct software to view that php >> file in a web browser as if it was a web page. If you do not have this >> software installed, then the web browser will ask you if you want to >> download the fil

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread e-letter
On 19/08/2010, David McGlone wrote: > Yes it is. But your computer needs the correct software to view that php > file in a web browser as if it was a web page. If you do not have this > software installed, then the web browser will ask you if you want to > download the file instead. > The web bro

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
On 18/08/2010, Bob McConnell wrote: > From: e-letter > >> On 18/08/2010, chris h wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:10 AM, e-letter wrote: >>> On 18/08/2010, chris h wrote: > What are the actual file permissions when you run ls -o? > root >>> >>> What's the entire out

RE: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread Bob McConnell
From: e-letter > On 18/08/2010, chris h wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:10 AM, e-letter wrote: >> >>> On 18/08/2010, chris h wrote: >>> > What are the actual file permissions when you run ls -o? >>> > >>> root >>> >> >> What's the entire output of ls -o? >> > [r...@localhost html]# ls -o *

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
On 18/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:10 +0100, e-letter wrote: > >> On 18/08/2010, chris h wrote: >> > What are the actual file permissions when you run ls -o? >> > >> root >> > >> > Do you know if PHP is installed as an apache mod or cgi? Also you might >> > check wha

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:10 +0100, e-letter wrote: > On 18/08/2010, chris h wrote: > > What are the actual file permissions when you run ls -o? > > > root > > > > Do you know if PHP is installed as an apache mod or cgi? Also you might > > check what user apache is running as. > > > No. How to ver

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
On 18/08/2010, chris h wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:10 AM, e-letter wrote: > >> On 18/08/2010, chris h wrote: >> > What are the actual file permissions when you run ls -o? >> > >> root >> > > What's the entire output of ls -o? > [r...@localhost html]# ls -o * -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 182 2010-08

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread chris h
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:10 AM, e-letter wrote: > On 18/08/2010, chris h wrote: > > What are the actual file permissions when you run ls -o? > > > root > What's the entire output of ls -o? > > > > Do you know if PHP is installed as an apache mod or cgi? Also you might > > check what user apa

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
On 18/08/2010, chris h wrote: > What are the actual file permissions when you run ls -o? > root > > Do you know if PHP is installed as an apache mod or cgi? Also you might > check what user apache is running as. > No. How to verify? > possibly... > $ vi /etc/apache2/envvars > No apache2 on my com

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread chris h
What are the actual file permissions when you run ls -o? Do you know if PHP is installed as an apache mod or cgi? Also you might check what user apache is running as. possibly... $ vi /etc/apache2/envvars and look for something like... export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
On 18/08/2010, Peter Lind wrote: > On 18 August 2010 12:47, e-letter wrote: >> On 18/08/2010, chris h wrote: >>> php is not processing the file. There's a few reasons for this, but the >>> first thing I would check is the permissions of the file. From the >>> directory try >>> >>> $ ls -oa >>>

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread Peter Lind
On 18 August 2010 12:47, e-letter wrote: > On 18/08/2010, chris h wrote: >> php is not processing the file.  There's a few reasons for this, but the >> first thing I would check is the permissions of the file.  From the >> directory try >> >> $ ls -oa >> > The file permission was confirmed as roo

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
On 18/08/2010, chris h wrote: > php is not processing the file. There's a few reasons for this, but the > first thing I would check is the permissions of the file. From the > directory try > > $ ls -oa > The file permission was confirmed as root, since it was copied (as root) from a normal user

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread chris h
php is not processing the file. There's a few reasons for this, but the first thing I would check is the permissions of the file. From the directory try $ ls -oa This should tell you who owns the file and what it's permissions are. You mentioned that you copied it as root, you could change it'

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
I changed the code as follows: php test Hi, I am a PHP script"; ?> this is a test The result (http://localhost/test.php): Hi,

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread Peter Lind
On 18 August 2010 10:44, e-letter wrote: > Readers, > > Copy below of message sent 15 August to php install digest list, but > to date not including in mail archive? > > The tutorial example: > > >       >              php test >                     >       >                                    ec

RE: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread Arno Kuhl
-Original Message- From: e-letter [mailto:inp...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 August 2010 10:44 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] tutorial failure Readers, Copy below of message sent 15 August to php install digest list, but to date not including in mail archive? The tutorial

[PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
Readers, Copy below of message sent 15 August to php install digest list, but to date not including in mail archive? The tutorial example: php test Hi, I am a PHP script'; ?> this is a test