Re: tutorial failure

On 18 August 2010 12:47, e-letter <inpost@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18/08/2010, chris h <chris404@gmail.com> wrote: >> php is not processing the file.  There's a few reasons for this, but the >> first thing I would check is the permissions of the file.  From the >> directory try >> >> $ ls -oa >> > The file permission was confirmed as root, since it was copied (as > root) from a normal user account directorp 'temporary' to the > directory '/var/www/html' > >> This should tell you who owns the file and what it's permissions are.  You >> mentioned that you copied it as root, you could change it's ownership to >> www-data. >> > This fails: > > [root@localhost html]# chown www-data test.php > chown: `www-data': invalid user > > So I repeated this with a normal user account and the change in > permission occurs. However, the html file containing the php script > remains unchanged. > > The instruction: > > ... > <?php phpinfo() ?> > ... > > Does not show the version of php. > Your webserver might not be configured to process php files - which server are you using? Regards Peter -- <hype> WWW: http://plphp.dk / http://plind.dk LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/plind BeWelcome/Couchsurfing: Fake51 Twitter: http://twitter.com/kafe15 </hype>