Getting PHP to work

Mon Aug 4 11:53:15 EDT 2003

you use MDK 9.1 rigth? then open rpmdrake-add software in the GUI mode on
any account it will ask for your root password then type in PHP and it will
show you all the php programs they offer on cd but are not install.

Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org]On Behalf Of
Asheville Joe
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:29 AM
To: NFLUG
Subject: Getting PHP to work

I'm trying to check out PHP.  I wrote the following file and named it
/home/bigbird/pgm/phpinfo.php

<? phpinfo(); ?>

I start Mozilla and enter file:///home/bigbird/pgm/phpinfo.php in the
address field and it displays the file as plain text (i.e. php is not
invoked).

I did a urpmi on php and it says all installed then

[root at localhost doc]# php -v
PHP 4.3.1 (cli) (built: Feb 17 2003 14:34:15)
Copyright (c) 1997-2002 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Zend Technologies

shows that it's there.

ps -ae shows

  PID TTY          TIME CMD
    1 ?        00:00:04 init
    2 ?        00:00:00 keventd
    3 ?       ` 00:00:00 kapmd
    4 ?        00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
    5 ?        00:00:01 kswapd
    6 ?        00:00:00 bdflush
    7 ?        00:00:00 kupdated
    8 ?        00:00:00 mdrecoveryd
   12 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
  123 ?        00:00:01 devfsd
  218 ?        00:00:00 khubd
  538 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
  925 ?        00:00:00 portmap
  941 ?        00:00:00 syslogd
  949 ?        00:00:00 klogd
  997 ?        00:00:00 rpc.statd
 1014 ?        00:00:00 gpm
 1127 ?        00:00:00 xfs
 1169 ?        00:00:00 apmd
 1202 ?        00:00:00 mdkkdm
 1220 ?        00:01:22 X
 1221 ?        00:00:00 atd
 1235 ?        00:00:00 mdkkdm
 1247 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd
 1256 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd
 1257 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd
 1258 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd
 1259 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd
 1270 ?        00:00:06 python
 1290 ?        00:00:00 tmdns
 1319 ?        00:00:00 xinetd
 1378 ?        00:00:00 cupsd
 1406 ?        00:00:02 fam
 1613 ?        00:00:00 master
 1627 ?        00:00:00 pickup
 1628 ?        00:00:00 nqmgr
 1878 ?        00:00:00 httpd-perl
 1885 ?        00:00:00 httpd-perl
 1886 ?        00:00:00 httpd-perl
 1887 ?        00:00:00 httpd-perl
 1888 ?        00:00:00 httpd-perl
 1894 ?        00:00:00 libhttpd.ep
 1901 ?        00:00:00 advxsplitlogfil
 1902 ?        00:00:00 libhttpd.ep
 1903 ?        00:00:00 libhttpd.ep
 1904 ?        00:00:00 libhttpd.ep
 1905 ?        00:00:00 libhttpd.ep
 1942 ?        00:00:00 crond
 1967 ?        00:00:00 lisa
 2088 vc/1     00:00:00 mingetty
 2089 vc/2     00:00:00 mingetty
 2090 vc/3     00:00:00 mingetty
 2091 vc/4     00:00:00 mingetty
 2092 vc/5     00:00:00 mingetty
 2093 vc/6     00:00:00 mingetty
 2338 ?        00:00:00 startkde
 2425 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit
 2428 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit
 2431 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit
 2433 ?        00:00:02 kdeinit
 2442 ?        00:00:03 artsd
 2444 ?        00:00:01 kdeinit
 2445 ?        00:00:00 kwrapper
 2447 ?        00:00:01 kdeinit
 2448 ?        00:00:05 kdeinit
 2450 ?        00:00:07 kdeinit
 2453 ?        00:00:15 kdeinit
 2458 ?        00:00:01 kweatherservice
 2460 ?        00:00:01 kdeinit
 2463 ?        00:00:01 kdeinit
 2465 ?        00:00:02 kdeinit
 2466 ?        00:00:01 korgac
 2468 ?        00:00:02 kdeinit
 2469 ?        00:00:02 kmoon
 2474 ?        00:00:01 kalarmd
 2477 ?        00:00:11 kdeinit
 2502 pts/1    00:00:00 bash
 2556 pts/1    00:00:00 su
 2564 pts/1    00:00:00 bash
 2640 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit
 2702 ?        00:02:12 mozilla-bin
 2709 ?        00:00:02 kppp
 2710 ?        00:00:00 kppp
 2712 ?        00:00:00 gconfd-2
 2713 ?        00:00:00 mozilla-bin
 2714 ?        00:00:00 mozilla-bin
 2715 ?        00:00:00 mozilla-bin
 2716 ?        00:00:00 mozilla-bin
 2721 ?        00:00:00 mozilla-bin
 2722 ttyS1    00:00:00 pppd
 2767 ?        00:00:00 esd
 2775 ?        00:00:09 kdeinit
 2827 pts/1    00:00:00 gconfd-2
 2840 pts/1    00:00:00 ps

I don't see plain hppd there, but Mandrake startup and shutdown always
mentions it.

So, what am I doing wrong?

The book I am reading says to put files in "your web server document
root" before running them, but I don't know what this means.

I tried changing the file to:

and that displays a blank page.

TIA

Joe