Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:12:28 -0600 From: Eric <heli@mikestammer.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WordPress, Apache, modules, mod_rewrite - how to verify? Message-ID: <4546165C.1070805@mikestammer.com> In-Reply-To: <20061030034144.34478.qmail@web31814.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20061030034144.34478.qmail@web31814.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Nick wrote: > I've been looking on the web for hours but haven't found any help, though of asking on some forums when I suddenly remembered! There's freebsd-questions!! > > Anyway, I'm a MS SQL Server guy, trying to mess around with FreeBSD at home. I've managed to install 6.1, CVSup, xorg, KDE, Apache 1.3. I haven't touched this box for a while due to my work schedule, now I'm trying to pick up where I left off... I just install ed WordPress from ports, trying to use it to learn PHP and MySQL. (At work, I'm almost 100% SQL Server only! I'm hoping to change to a Linux / Oracle, Data Warehouse type of position.... but outside of work, I would like to learn some PHP, Perl and MySQL... may be start a little side web biz or something...) > > So, main question: > > WordPress requires PHP 4 and MySQL 3 or later, and optional mod_rewrite. How do I verify if these are installed? > > I used "pkg_version -v" to check my installed ports' versions, I have these: > apache-1.3.37_1 > mod_perl-1.29_1 > mysql-client-5.1.11 > perl-5.8.8 > php5-5.1.4 > php5-mysql-5.1.4 > php5-pcre-5.1.4 > php5-xml-5.1.4 > wordpress-2.0.4_1,1 > > I think I still need to install mod_php and mod_rewrite, but I can't see them in /usr/ports/www > > How do I verify that php, MySql and mod_rewrite are install and function properly in Apache? > > Thanks! > > Nick make a file called pinfo.php in your web servers data directory root (/usr/local/www/data by default) put this in it: <?php phpinfo(); ?> save it and go to: http://yourURL.com/pinfo.php and read away that will dump all php related info. make sure you install the suhosin patches against PHP and/or use the extension Eric
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