Re: tutorial failure

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 15:35 +0100, e-letter wrote: > On 19/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > > I think it's fairly clear that for whatever reason, PHP isn't properly > > configured with Apache. You've mentioned you're using Mandriva, which, > > coincidentally, is what i've just recently installed on my home machine. > > It has a very good graphical package manager that you can use to install > > PHP and Apache. I'm not at my home machine right now, so I don't recall > > the exact name, but it's found somewhere in the Computer Settings main > > menu dialogue. From here, you can install Apache and PHP, which will > > configure Apache as well to recognise PHP scripts and execute them. > > > mcc (mandriva linux control centre) is the command (or more > specifically, rpmdrake) > > To my knowledge, using this tool, all necessary files are installed. I > suspect that there is a fault with the way that mandriva builds the > packages. As Colin suggested on another email, check to see if apache-mod_php was installed too. It seems likely that it wasn't for some reason. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk