please SOMEBODY tell me what is going on.....i cant get phpbb2 to run...i installed it on my linode using like 10 different combos and i get different things, and none of them are what i want.....can someone please guide me to what i am doing wrong?

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-- Surferdude

okay when you go to http://tmi.reactornet.net/phpBB2 it pulls up a download box for you to download a php file, INSTEAD OF DISPLAYING IT!!!! It works fine on my other, slower box.....is there anything i can do? I tried like 10 different combinations....the other box has debian sarge[/url]

newest of everything....php4 mysql apache1something

You need to enable php in your apache conf files.

You probably need to install libapache-modphp4 -- it's called something like that.

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Jay Faulkner
http://oldos.org

how??? my linux geek (i'm in training) has no clue why it wont work.....i dont see any variant of what you suggested in apt-cache......i just did a apt-get update too.

Hrm.. I shouldn't be able to view the directory like that--it should point me to the index.php file automatically. I think the directory options are messed up. If you have a <directory /var/www/phpbb> section in your httpd.conf, remove it. Apache shouldn't need it.

His problems are because he doesn't have the php mod installed for apache, so apache doesn't see a .php file as text/html.

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Jay Faulkner

http://oldos.org

right! but i dont think the mod is a package referenced by woody....so its either a manual thing or something built into apache.....so what do i need to edit...?

You need to install the package php4.

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/ Peter

already done man....already done.

so what do i need to edit......???

Sounds to me like the real problem here is you need to go back and read the Apache, PHP, MySQL, and phpBB2 manuals... no offense intended, but none of us can help you set it up unless you know a few basic things about how all 4 of those software packages work together and can narrow down what's not working to 2-3 problems rather than 50 while we attempt to blindly guide you through every single step to get all four up and running.

This is for Debian Woody

apt-get install php4

Edit /etc/apache/httpd.conf

LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
DirectoryIndex index.php

How about another distro? I just found out that CentOS has a LAMP interface packaged in the template

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-- Surferdude

sorry guys.....


phpmyadmin works though on it....which stumped my linux oracle....but phpbb2 doesnt....