Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?
Mathieu Charron
mathieu.charron at elwillow.net
Thu Jun 26 18:26:18 UTC 2008
Congrats! it works!
that is a good resumé of the issue (never heard of tasksel either).
As Volksman said, there is a lot of package and obviously you don't
need all of them, install them if you need to.
And don't worry volksman, you didn't offended anyone, I think we (well
me) are all pretty much tired of arguing which OS is better and blah
blah blah but we can't stop (^_^)
and now, to the next newbie that need support!
Mathieu Charron
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:47 AM, volksman <v0lksman69 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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