need help with PHP

English Programming/Scripting
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Hi all,

I had to review website and i got whole website sent in ziped file. I extracted it in home directory and tried to view it with browser. Since all files are *.php browser instead of displaying them tried to download them. I went ahead and copied all files of website to /srv/www/htdocs and tried from browser localhos/index.php (index file of website) - it worked.

so my question is - how can i make this work without transferring all files into /srv/www/htdocs but instead, for example from /home/username/public_html

thnx in advance

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Go to the URL http://localhost/~username/

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it didn’t really work.
i went to localhost/nikom/public_html/website/index.php but got error page.

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In that case you should go to http://localhost/~nikom/website/index.php

~nikom is short for /home/nikom/public_html

You should also take note of what the error was. Not all errors are the same although they might look the same to you. A 404 means that the URL doesn’t exist, but if you get a 403 that means you have a permission issue.

The file index.php must be readable to the world and all the directories leading to it must have read and search (r-x) permission for the world.

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i’m getting 404 error. (and i checked permissions and they are r-x for world)
;(
still no go

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Look in /var/log/apache2/error_log to see what the full pathname of the file you are trying to access is.

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hmmm…this is interesting:

[Thu Oct 30 23:58:18 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /srv/www/htdocs/home

so it still looking in /srv/www/htdocs. Do i have to change somethig (add) in apache.conf? like to make apache read public_html folder in my home directory?

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You need to enable userdir in /etc/sysconfig/apache2, variable APACHE_MODULES. Either use a text editor, or

a2enmod userdir

then reload apache (rcapache2 reload).

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this iswhat i have:

nikoshiba:/home/nikom # a2enmod userdir
"userdir" already present
nikoshiba:/home/nikom #

still puzzled…

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You’re not entering http://localhost/home/nikom/… are you?

When I write

http://localhost/~nikom/website/index.php

I mean that you should enter that into the location bar exactly as shown, with the tilde (~).

This assumes that you have put the file in

/home/nikom/public_html/website/index.php

if there is no website directory, then omit that part.

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You’re not entering http://localhost/home/nikom/… are you?

…:stuck_out_tongue: i was…
but still i get 404 error.
(and strange is tht i can’t even enter “~” in firefox address bar, in opera it ispossible to do so, but as i have sad - 404!!!

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Something strange with your keyboard or browser charset in Firefox then.

What’s in /var/log/apache2/error_log when you go to http://localhost/~nikom/index.php with Opera? It should try to fetch from /home/nikom/public_html/index.php, and then you should check that you have allowed Apache to serve these files, and also the permissions of index.php and every directory on that path, that is to say: / /home /home/nikom /home/nikom/public_html should have read and search permission for others.

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BTW if you are tired of figuring out the permission system, another way out is to create a directory owned by you, say /srv/www/htdocs/nikom, and then you can put your PHP scripts there. You could reduce typing by making a symlink to it.

sudo mkdir /srv/www/htdocs/nikom
sudo chown nikom:users /srv/www/htdocs/nikom
ln -s /srv/www/htdocs/nikom ~/mywebsite

then you can cd mywebsite and do your work there.

In Apache, the URL would be:

http://localhost/nikom/

As before, make sure that the directory is read and search enabled for others, and that any files are read enabled for others.

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BTW if you are tired of figuring out the permission system, another way out is to create a directory owned by you, say /srv/www/htdocs/nikom, and then you can put your PHP scripts there. You could reduce typing by making a symlink to it.

i’m doing it already…it’s just killing me WHY OH WHY i can’t put public_html folder to work…>:( >:( >:( >:(
all read rights are r-x to world, all modules are loaded…WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT FROM ME???

(ken_yap thnx for you help, really appreciated…and i’m not going to give up…dean it.
this frustration of mine wasn’t directed to you, i hope it was clear that my php and apapache configuration are the reason)