[NTLUG:Discuss] Setting up virtual website on RH 8.0

[Brian Rafferty]

I used to have a nice perl/cgi virtual website setup
on my old RedHat 5 or 6 machine.  I have built a new
machine and installed RedHat 8.0.  The world has
changed a bit.

Insttead of targeting home/httpd it now looks at
/var/www/html
That's fine with me.

The new software I am trying to setup is PHP based.
That is new to me, as is MySQL.  I have worked with
lots of other databases and much is the same.
It comes from http://www.oscommerce.com
Their documentation is at http://www.osdox.com
It is, unfortunately, not a step by step kind of
set of instructions.

My main problem probably is that I do not like the
idea of setting up my test catalog on a production
site.
I want to get it running on my PC and then move it to
the web.

When I tried browsing the PHP pages of the catalog
software on my PC, the PHP was not processed.  I saw
all the source, untranslated, on the screen.

PHP 4.2.2 is active on my PC, as is Apache webserver.
Even though there is a php.conf file in the
/etc/httpd/conf.d directory, I tried adding the
LoadModule lines to httpd.conf as recommended at
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/faq.installation.php#faq.installation.processing
I was not sure whether or where the AddModule lines
should go in the httpd.comf file, but I tried putting
them after the LoadModule lines.

Now if I try to browse localhost, Apache can not find
the default html homepage anymore.  This does not
sound like progress.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian



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