-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well after my frantic squawking its not cooking along nicely!
For the record and so everyone knows for the next time an inexperienced (dare i say incompetent) user like myself comes along, this is what i did wrong and this is how it got fixed... apt-get install apache apacheconfig told me i had to edit httpd.conf to set the apache root directory (might have my terms wrong here but i hope the meaning is clear) having seen this dir in a lot of different places (/home/httpd on redhat, /usr/local/apache/www on BSD) i decided to get creative and /usr/apache seemed like a nice place i'd remember. at no point that i could see in the install was the correct /var/www suggested to me. i then installed php3 which is where i hit a snag... the setup of php3, in particular the running of apacheconfig wouldn't automatically load the module... feeling brave i went into httpd.conf and uncommented the appropriate line, and restarted apache still no luck... somewhat later i found out about /var/www (BTW i do think /var is the best place for this) and changed the httpd.conf to reflect this. Bingo (mind you apacheconfig still wasn't working quite to spec, i was editing the conf file myself and restarting the server) php3 was now working... Mysql was not apt-get install php3-mysql buzzed and whirred but didn't help. and the setup offered no suggestions about editing files. help from kind people on this list told me about adding extension=mysql.so to the php3.ini file... now it all works!! i have to say i feel a teensy bit let down by the package maintainers having said that i have learnt a lot about the inner workings of the systems i'm using - this was positive for me but others might like things to work as advertised. Regards and thanks for the help and patience of everyone here, John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0 iQA/AwUBOhi3bNw8Sd3Rlz0HEQKoZACfYz5vPhl/dGbn4aRM9gn7Gze65fEAn0SE SVSFoREVLc8HU7wMwWQ0SJAC =fsLV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
