[ubuntu-za] LAMP install

Sat Oct 20 09:06:24 UTC 2012

I have followed the procedure at 
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/486 to install LAMP on my 
Mint 13 laptop with a view to developing locally & once working emigrate 
to my server but ......
Displaying html & php in Firefox works fine but links seem to be failing.
The following extract from one of my proggies works fine from the 
command line but not when called from a link in the browser. I suspect 
the problem may have something to do with the 
require_once('includes/configuration.inc');
but what?

<?php
require_once('includes/configuration.inc');     // database connect 
script & the rest.
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Insert a new User</title>
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="Mon, 22 Jul 2000 11:12:01 GMT"

</head>
<?php
     DBConnect();
     $Message = sprintf("<br />Line %d After DBConnect()<br />", __LINE__);
     trigger_error($Message, E_USER_ERROR);

     if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc())
         {
         $_POST['uname'] = addslashes($_POST['uname']);
         }
     $name_check = "SELECT Usrname FROM Users WHERE Usrname = 
'".$_POST['uname']."'";
     $Result = mysql_query($name_check);
     $Count = 0;
     while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($Result))
         {
         ++$Count;
         }

     if ($count != 0)
         {
         $Message = sprintf("%s %d <br>Sorry, the username: %s is 
already taken, please pick another.", __FILE__, __LINE__);
         trigger_error($Message, E_USER_ERROR);
         exit;
         }

     $Message = sprintf("<br />Line %d After username check<br />", 
__LINE__);
     trigger_error($Message, E_USER_ERROR);
     if ($_POST['passwd'] != $_POST['passwd_again'])
         {
         $Message = sprintf("%s %s %s %s<br 
/>",strip_tags($_POST['Surname']),strip_tags($_POST['FirstName']), 
strip_tags($_POST['uname']),strip_tags($_POST['passwd']));
         trigger_error($Message, E_USER_ERROR);
         $Message = sprintf("%s %d %s %s<br>Passwords did not match!<br 
/>",__FILE__, __LINE__,$_POST['passwd'],$_POST['passwd_again']);
         trigger_error($Message, E_USER_ERROR);
         exit;
         }

etc etc etc

-- 
Regards,
Alf Stockton                 www.stockton.co.za