Webhosting

I have been interested in linux for some time now, and as a project, me and some friends are making a personal webhost (to start off) for ourselves to use and to learn linux.

I have a fresh install of RedHat 9.0 on what will be my server. I did minimul install, and installed the development tools. I want to build these servers right from the source to stay at 100% up to date all the time, and learn it even better. I tried RPMs with Mandrake...and just don't like it.

Heres what I picked out for our server setup:
ProFTPd 1.2.9 (already installed and running A-OK)
Apache2 httpd 2.0.49
MySQL standard 4.0.18 (source; installed and running A-OK)
PHP 4.3.6RC1
Sendmail 8.12.11
Perl 5.0.8
BIND9

Is there any dependencies or anything else I will need for these installs? Or anything that might be good to have. I am trying to make the server run as professional as possible...as one of the paid hosts would run.

Also, one last question...What is the proper order to setup these things in, if any? Apache2 first? then PHP and Perl or how does it go?

Thanks!

for dependencies you will find out what you need when you run the ./configure command. if it doesnt find everything it needs it will tell you what dependencies the program needs and many times even gives you a link to were to find it :)

alright, thanks alot big_k, however now I have a few more problems.

PHP doesn't seem to be parsing correctly when it does open a .php file, however some of the time, it doesn't work at all...and tries to save it. I made sure

Code:

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LoadModule php4_module        modules/libphp4.so

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was in there, and the .so file was in the correct spot.

I also checked that this:

Code:

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DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php

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had index.php in there, so it would load index...but it doesn't.

What really gets me is that it keeps trying to download the .php files...I checked that

Code:

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#
# AddType allows you to add to or override the MIME configuration
# file mime.types for specific file types.
#
#AddType application/x-tar .tgz
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

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is in there right with the .php extensions.

All i got installed so far is mysql, php, and apache.

Any ideas as to what could be wrong?

View server at http://cia.richgannon.net
PHP @ http://cia.richgannon.net/phpBB2/

Are you restarting apache when you change the config file?

Did you enable the php module when compiling Apache ?

I encountered this problem before and what i did was to clear my brower's cache. When I tried it again it worked already.

You may also want to try checking the helper applications setting if you are using mozilla or netscape. application/x-httpd-php might be setup to prompt you to download the php file if it was accessed by your browser.

Hope that helps. :)

I did restart Apache after compiling PHP. And to my knowledge, the PHP was installed, where is shows

Code:

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LoadModule php4_module        modules/libphp4.so

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Just to see if I did this wrong...what are the specific paramters I should put in with ./configure for each of these?

Any links you know of maybe?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by kihbord

I encountered this problem before and what i did was to clear my brower's cache. When I tried it again it worked already.

You may also want to try checking the helper applications setting if you are using mozilla or netscape. application/x-httpd-php might be setup to prompt you to download the php file if it was accessed by your browser.

Hope that helps. :)

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It is not client side issue, I am configuring all this from my windows PC using IE6 and it works on other websiutes with PHP. I cleared cache and all, and had some friends try it, with no luck.

you will have to compile php into apache. you mite need to re-compile apache with php support. im not sure but you mite have to

isnt it the point of modules that they contain code to load into said program? if you have a php module i dont think that you need to re-compile as long as the module loads

im not 100% sure but i thought you had to compile the support for that module but i am not sure cause i have never compiled apache i had someone do it for me ;) :P