Re: tutorial failure

On 18/08/2010, Peter Lind <peter.e.lind@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? > Apache. Below is an extract of an (to now) unanswered question: ... <FilesMatch \.php$> SetHandler application/x-httpd-php </FilesMatch Apparently this should be part of the addtype directive. I don't understand which file I am to edit and add the code shown above. ... So perhaps apache is not configured but I don't know how to test this.