Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?
volksman
v0lksman69 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 12:47:30 UTC 2008
geo wrote:
> This seems to have solved it! Now when I go to:
>
> http://georutkay.homelinux.org/test.php
>
> I get a nice report on what's what in the system!
>
WOOHOO!!! Congrats! Apache and PHP are working together and mySQL is a
loaded module (as you can see by the list on the test.php page).
> Can we summarize all of this for the benefit of others?
>
+++ Packages Needed
The following packages need to be installed in order to get this far
(Apache and PHP playing nice):
For Apache2 you need the following:
apache2
apache2-doc
apache2-mpm-prefork
apache2-utils
libexpat1
ssl-cert
For PHP5 you'd NEED:
libapache2-mod-php5
php5
php5-common
php5-mysql
php5-gd
However if you plan to use any plugins with Joomla these may be required:
php5-curl
php5-dev
php5-idn
php-pear
php5-imagick
php5-imap
php5-mcrypt
php5-memcache
php5-mhash
php5-ming
php5-ps
php5-pspell
php5-recode
php5-snmp
php5-sqlite
php5-tidy
php5-xmlrpc
php5-xsl
This package will install phpmyAdmin which you haven't touched yet:
phpmyadmin
As well these are needed for mySQL which we haven't touched on yet either:
mysql-server
mysql-client
libmysqlclient15-dev
+++ Troubleshooting Tools
You have also been shown a couple troubleshooting tools that you should
keep in mind.
a2enmod/a2dismod - Apache tool to enable and disable Apache modules.
For example Joomla will likely have a feature to make a URL less
complicated (so instead of http://yoursite/index.php?node=1 it will look
like http://yoursite/a-pretty-name) . You may need to enable a module
called 'rewrite' for that. a2enmod will tell you if the module is
available and let you enable it.
You know that your Apache config files are located in /etc/apache2 and
that your web server serves content from /var/www.
You can run php in a terminal to see if it is choking on any modules or
running smooth (php -v to provide the version number and exit).
You can test PHP via Apache by creating a file with the extension .php
and placing it on your server. The contents of the file should be:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
What I have learned with this case:
1) tasksel on Ubuntu server to setup parts of the server. Hadn't known
about that tool but will be looking into it.
2) former Mac users with no previous linux experience may attempt server
product installs on their desktops (see tongue in cheek remark below).
Nothing wrong with that but not a level I've ever had to support.
Certainly a different ball park then I'm used to.
3) I'm not good at providing support via e-mail. IRC, IM, Phone, in
person, all no problems. My tongue in cheek and sarcasm doesn't come
across well via e-mail (I also can't stand the waiting!!!). So I will
lurk in the shadows here from now on. Sorry if I offended anyone or
anyone feels I went to far. I always had Geo's best interests at heart
and only wanted to help him get his server up (my OCD manifests in that
I can't leave a computer broken).
Regardless glad to see you are -mostly- there Geo. Next hurdle is to
install Joomla and then use it!
Best of luck and I'm sure the fine folks here will get you going!
> --- On *Wed, 6/25/08, Andrew Mathenge /<mathenge at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
> From: Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?
> To: yaktur at yahoo.com
> Cc: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 11:18 PM
>
> Can you check synaptic.
>
> Launch synaptic.
>
> System --> Administration --> Synaptic Package Manager
>
> Click on "Search"
>
> Type "apache2"
>
> Scroll through the results list to see if the following packages are installed:
>
> apache2
> apache2.2-common
> apache2-mpm-prefork
> apahe2-utils
> libapache2-mod-php5 (very important)
>
> Click on "Search" again
>
> Type "php module"
>
> Scroll through the result list to see if the following packages are installed:
>
> libapache2-php-module (same as above, very important)
> php5-gd
> php5-mysql
> php5-ldap
> php5-odbc
>
> In your case, for Joomla! you'd only need php5-mysql.
>
> Then, click on "Search"
> again.
>
> Type "mysql"
>
> libdbd-mysql-perl (not so important)
> libmysqlclient15off
> mysql-client
> mysql-client-5.0
> mysql-common
> mysql-server
> mysql-server-5.0
> php-mysql
>
> You may have been told to check these before in earlier posts, but
> check them yourself.
>
> If they are already installed, perhaps what you can do is remove them
> and then re-install them.
>
> That may re-create the folders that are missing from your installation.
>
> It's clear that PHP configuration in apache is missing.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Andrew.
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:09 PM, geo <yaktur at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I was trying to implement your advice. I was creating the files
> "php5.conf"
> > and "php5.load" and their respective contents and permissions by
> > hand.....then I realized I don't have a modules directory!
> >
> > This is the contents of my /etc/apache2/
> directory:
> >
> > (Directories)
> > conf.d
> > mods-available
> > mods-enabled
> > sites-available
> > sites-enabled
> >
> > (Individual files)
> > apache2.conf
> > enwars
> > httpd.conf
> > ports.conf
> >
> > And that's all that's in /etc/apache2/ !!!
> >
> > There is no /etc/apache2/modules/ path!
> >
> > YIKES! What has happened? Why isn't there one there?
> >
> > geo
> >
> > --- On Wed, 6/25/08, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?
> > To: yaktur at yahoo.com, "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community"
> > <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 9:46 PM
> >
> > The problem you have is that PHP modules aren't being loaded by
> > apache. You mentioned that when you
> wrote:
> >
> >>> I don't have any such files named php5.conf and php5.load in
> > /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/. Nothing there even starts with php.
> >
> > I have PHP working on my system. My /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf
> > file looks like this:
> >
> > <IfModule mod_dir.c>
> > DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php
> > index.xhtml index.htm
> > </IfModule>
> >
> > Inside the folder /etc/apache2/mods-enabled folder, I also have the
> > following links:
> >
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2008-04-26 22:26 php5.conf ->
> > ../mods-available/php5.conf
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27
> > 2008-04-26 22:26 php5.load ->
> > ../mods-available/php5.load
> >
> > Notice that these are links (or shortcuts) pointing to the following
> > files in /etc/apache2/mods-available
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 133
> 2008-02-27 15:49 php5.conf
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59 2008-02-27 15:49 php5.load
> >
> > Those files have the following contents:
> >
> > php5.conf looks like this:
> >
> > <IfModule mod_php5.c>
> > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3
> > AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
> > </IfModule>
> >
> >
> > And php5.load looks like this:
> >
> > LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
> >
> > Which means that the file in /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so MUST
> > exist or PHP will not work.
> >
> > One final comment. Removing "index.php" from
> > /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf means that the file index.php won't
> > be loaded by default. PHP files will still be processed because of
> > the
> > /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php.conf file.
> >
> > Hope this moves you a step
> closer!
> >
> > Andrew.
> >
>
>
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