A bit OT perhaps: Counsel on a newbie to php and MySQL (on Ubuntu!)

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 07/16/2011 09:14 AM, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've decided to learn php and MYSQL for web work, armed with "PHP and
> MYSQL for Dummies." But I find that even at that book's very basic
> level, the author assumes that once the two are installed, the reader
> will know how to activate them and what the directory structures are
> supposed to look like.
> 
> I've installed PHP, Apache, and MySQL on my laptop, which I figured I'd
> use for my training wheels, as per instructions here: 
> 
> http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-apache2-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-ubuntu-11.04-lamp
> 
> When I try to start Apache as sudo, I get the following error message: 
> 
> apache2: Syntax error on line 227 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Could
> not open configuration file /etc/apache2/conf.d/drupal6.conf: No such
> file or directory
> 
> And yet, when I call up a terminal and cd my way to /etc/apache2/conf.d,
> drupal6.conf indeed is present and accounted for.
> 
> Is this a permissions issue? Or a not-so-obvious (to a newbie) place
> where I mucked up the installation? Any guidance on how to get this up
> and running would be appreciated.

Try:
sudo chown -R root:root /etc/apache2
sudo chmod -R u=rw,o=r,g=r /etc/apache2

Also, let us see the entry line in apache2.conf? Helps a bit.