Setting up php

d3c3it · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 12:03 pm Post subject: Setting up php

Hi
i want to start doing some php coding and i thought what would be a good idea was to have php running on my system. well i took a look at the gentoo desktop guide but the problem is i dont want the server to be for public consumtion ie for my system only. so what i wanted to know was what packages do i need to emerge/setup? also how would i go about using it? ie do i have to put my .php/mysql files in a persific folder or can i dump them anywhere?
thanks for any help

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puggy · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 2:05 pm Post subject:

I just did emerge php if I remember correctly. Then basically it sets itself up with apache. Then my apache htdocs folder under the httpd user in /home contains all my php files I want to use, but they can be anywhere in your htdocs really. Read up a bit on php and it will become apparent why nothing special really needs to be done to use php once you've got it set up.

Puggy

EDIT: Hmm, thinking about it, if this doesn't work there might be an ebuild to run or something. My mind is a bit cloudy on what I did as I was setting up phpbb and mysql and php and apache all in one evening. Apologies if its not this simple. I'll try and help you out further if you run into any problems.
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dev-null-devil · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 May 2003 Posts: 93

If im thinking what you are thinking you want to enable php for only one folder? You can do that with the <directory> setting in your apache.conf, just add module php inside and end it with </directory>.
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d3c3it · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 2:29 pm Post subject:

dev-null-devil · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 May 2003 Posts: 93

Okey, lets see here, where you put them? it's the same directory as you put the rest of your *.htm/*.html files, but to make the server know that it's phpfiles, you have to have this if you want to have an index.php (arranged so if there isn't any index.html the index.php will be the default file and so on..):

d3c3it · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 7:15 pm Post subject:

thanks dev-null-devil least i know how to do that now:)
my main problem currently is emerging php, ie in what order do i emerge the system i emerge -p php and apache was never shown neither was mysql what actual procedure do i need to emerge this stuff or does it not matter the order in which i emerge it?
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kopfarzt · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 7:39 pm Post subject:

php can be emerged in two ways, as a programming language and/or as a module for apache. Try emerge -p mod_php to see apache come up.

If you want to use mysql, I would suggest to emerge mysql first. Php is very flexible, though does not require much, but will use it if it is there.

After the emerge, look at your /etc/conf.d/apache*

kopfarzt

d3c3it · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 8:10 pm Post subject:

kopfarzt · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 8:27 pm Post subject:

php is optimized for use in webpages. There are lots of programming languages out there, which are very good, for example Python (not only my favourite :-)

So, while you can use PHP for daily programming jobs, it is best suited for webpages (IMHO). Emerge mysql, mod_php and you will be fine, as you want to do web pages. Only emerge php if you want to write stand-alone php programs with gtk user-interface or whatever, that you can directly start from the command line. (Hope that this won't start a religious flame war).

kopfarzt

d3c3it · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 10:08 pm Post subject:

cheers man i know exactly what to do now

i never realised php could be used for programming i thought it was a webbased programming language, like asp *might be wrong?* anyway away i go to emerge, if it goes wrong you will be recieving private messages lol
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