Re: tutorial failure

On 18/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:10 +0100, e-letter wrote: > >> On 18/08/2010, chris h <chris404@gmail.com> wrote: >> > What are the actual file permissions when you run ls -o? >> > >> root >> > >> > Do you know if PHP is installed as an apache mod or cgi? Also you might >> > check what user apache is running as. >> > >> No. How to verify? >> >> > possibly... >> > $ vi /etc/apache2/envvars >> > >> No apache2 on my computer, only '/usr/lib/apache' which contains only .so >> files. >> > > > ls -o doesn't give one word answers, so again, what is the output of an > ls -o call in your shell? > > I assume that root is the owner of the file here, and the fact that > you're getting some output from it seems to suggest that at least read > permissions are available for group and other, but you should check to > see if the permissions are indeed something like 664 (-rw-rw-r--) > > What OS are you using? I'm assuming a Linux distro of some kind here, > but it could also be another Unix variant. Have you tried using the > package manager within the distro (if it is Linux) to install PHP and > Apache together? That makes it a lot easier to get up and running with a > decent configuration, especially if you're unfamiliar with the more > complicated details. > I used urpmi with mandriva