Hosting a website written with PHP

[mumbles27]

Hi forum

 

 

not sure if this is the right place to askthis but any help greatfuklly recieved.

 

i need to host a website which appears to be written with PHP or using PHP. i know i need to activate PHP and MySQL.

 

my initial question is that a normal HTML website has an index.html or default.html which is placed in the root public HTML folder and the subsequent files and folders are placed with regard to the dir tree they are written in. Is this the case with PHP as the website i have received appears not to have a definitive landing page. If it does its within a folder.

 

not a dunce with regard to HTML so am willing to read if anyone has any links or tips or help...

 

Thanks

[trq]

Generally a server with php installed will configure index.php as a default DirectoryIndex.

 

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex

[mumbles27]

thanks

 

and at the risk of opening a can worms, how hard is configuring php?

[mumbles27]

or should i say installing php?

[JonnoTheDev]

If you have yum:

 

yum install php

yum install mysql-server

yum install php-mysql

 

start the services

service httpd restart

service mysqld start

 

make sure you change the root password for mysql

[trq]

or should i say installing php?

 

Its not hard at all. What OS are you using?