CentOS - Sep 2005 - Are PHP and MySQL running on my CentOS installation?

When I was installing CentOS, I noticed among the list of components
that PHP and MySQL were available. I made sure they were selected
because I develop a lot of web sites in PHP/MySQL, but I always do my
testing on the server side. I thought it would be kind of cool if I
could do the testing and development on my home machine.

Which is a long way of saying that I think I have PHP/MySQL on my
machine, but have no idea what the heck to do with them. I mean, I can
script PHP and write queries for MySQL, but don't know anything about
their set up and installation.

I wrote a small test HTML page with basic head and body information, and
simply this PHP in the body:
<?php
echo 'hello world':
?>
And then opened it in FireFox. As expected, it didn't display anything.

So I went to my trusty friend, Google, and asked about it. But it's one
of those cases where people seem to assume that it's already installed,
and if it's installed, it's already working. The PHP site itself says
"We do not distribute UNIX/Linux binaries. Most Linux distributions come
with PHP these days" and then not much else about running it.

Am I going to find myself in a whole new world of confusing settings and
configurations if I try to get PHP working on my home machine? 

Dave

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 19:52 +0900, Dave Gutteridge
wrote:
> Am I going to find myself in a whole new world of confusing settings and
> configurations if I try to get PHP working on my home machine? 
yum install php-mysql mysql-server
killall -HUP httpd

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Dave,

What you need is php, msql & apache.

You can install all the packages via using yum

First execute
	
	yum install php php-mysql httpd mysqlclient10 mysql-server 

yum will resolve all dependences for you and probably will install some
additional packages that you may need.

If you have some packages already installed yum will tell you !

After installation, you will have to start several services:

service httpd start
service mysqld start
 
to test that your webserver is running you can use your local browser 

httpd://localhost

the best way to test php  is to put a phpinfo.php file in your webserver
document root usually in /var/www/html/.

Do the following:

vi /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

insert in the first line:

<? phpinfo(); ?>


To test php do the following:

httpd://localhost/phpinfo.php

it will show you your php configuration.


Nassri



> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Dave Gutteridge
> Sent: sexta-feira, 16 de Setembro de 2005 11:52
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] Are PHP and MySQL running on my CentOS installation?
> 
> 
> When I was installing CentOS, I noticed among the list of components
> that PHP and MySQL were available. I made sure they were selected
> because I develop a lot of web sites in PHP/MySQL, but I always do my
> testing on the server side. I thought it would be kind of cool if I
> could do the testing and development on my home machine.
> 
> Which is a long way of saying that I think I have PHP/MySQL on my
> machine, but have no idea what the heck to do with them. I mean, I can
> script PHP and write queries for MySQL, but don't know anything about
> their set up and installation.
> 
> I wrote a small test HTML page with basic head and body information,
and
> simply this PHP in the body:
> <?php
> echo 'hello world':
> ?>
> And then opened it in FireFox. As expected, it didn't display
anything.
> 
> So I went to my trusty friend, Google, and asked about it. But it's
one
> of those cases where people seem to assume that it's already
installed,
> and if it's installed, it's already working. The PHP site itself
says
> "We do not distribute UNIX/Linux binaries. Most Linux distributions
come
> with PHP these days" and then not much else about running it.
> 
> Am I going to find myself in a whole new world of confusing settings
and
> configurations if I try to get PHP working on my home machine?
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
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Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> I wrote a small test HTML page with basic head and body information, and
> simply this PHP in the body:
> <?php
> echo 'hello world':
> ?>
> And then opened it in FireFox. As expected, it didn't display anything.
Wrong place to ask, please take your querry to a more suitable list ( 
you might find something here : http://www.php.net/support.php ).

If people on this list wish to reply, please do so off-list.

- K