Where would I put my .php files on linux?

[WickDaddy]

I'm trying to set up a localhost to play around with .php files.

I used two tutorials under askmegabe at youtube. (can't post the links). It looks like everything is set-up correctly.

127.0.0.1 (localhost) says "it works"
localhost/phpmyadmin is my MySQL (I can login)

Now my problem is I am newer to Linux and I'm having a hard time figuring out where I would even put these .php files.

I've been using Google and something tells me www/var is an important location and it needs to go inside this location?

How would I get to this folder or location or if I'm doing everything wrong what needs to happen next?

[daark.child]

tHi and welcome to the forums.

What Linux distribution are you using? If it's Ubuntu, then it's probably /var/www.

[WickDaddy]

11.04 Ubuntu and during installation it was /var/www, but I'm wondering how do I get to this location in Ubuntu? Is this where I would put my .php file as well?

I started using Ubuntu about a month ago. I'm still having a very hard time finding files and such.

[yancek]

You can copy files to the /var/www directory using the file manager. I haven't used Ubuntu 11.04 but in previous versions of Ubuntu, there was a places tab in the upper left of the screen.

Do you mean the info.php and other files you create? They would go in the /var/www directory, usually there is a sub-directory there called html or htdocs. Put your files there. You should have the Apache index.html there already.

[WickDaddy]

You can copy files to the /var/www directory using the file manager. I haven't used Ubuntu 11.04 but in previous versions of Ubuntu, there was a places tab in the upper left of the screen.

Do you mean the info.php and other files you create? They would go in the /var/www directory, usually there is a sub-directory there called html or htdocs. Put your files there. You should have the Apache index.html there already.

I don't care what the people on Linuxforums.org say about you. I think you're an alright guy.

I am so grateful for this help. Especially the index.html. I was trying to install an FTP just to try to figure this out when all I needed to do was find the folder this information was stored in. I need to figure out what all those files are in my FTP then.

[WickDaddy]

one more quick question. Would you happen to know why I can't edit the index.html file? It's read only currently. Do I need some type of permissions set-up?

[yancek]

If it's read-only that's why you can't edit it. You need to make it writeable. Got to the directory /var/www/html and as root do: chmod 644 index.html. This should give read/write to root and read to users and others. If you want something else, you can get info on the chmod command by typing in a terminal: man chmod