On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:09 -0500, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, rado wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 10:25 -0500, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote: > >> > >> here is a quick sample php script. > >> > >> <?php > >> $myusername="Joe Blow"; > >> echo "<html><body>"; > >> echo "<h1>" . $myusername . "</h1>"; > >> echo "</html"; > >> ?> > > > > I know there is tons out there for this if I can just get the start or > > understand errrr the proper syntax or geez just get going. > > > > yes, index.php works fine. Is this to say that if you have an index.php, > > apache looks at and handles this first...taking the place of index.html? > > > > The master config file for Apache is > > /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf > > when you want to add new virtual servers or special configuration options I add virtual servers all the time...but! > it is recomended to create a file >/etc/httpd/conf.d/mydomain.com.conf ...this is a new one on me! > > If you open the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file you will see a conf > option called > > DirectoryIndex > > > You will see that when you installed php, that a file > /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf > > was added. kk...php was already installed and yes, etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf is there... > > if you open the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf, you can see that the > option DirectoryIndex is not overridden but added to. Check the master > httpd.conf file to see what options are set. kk later on today ...will do as you say...gotta work outside now tho > > When you make a change to the apache configuration files you must do.. > /etc/init.d/httpd reload ....always... thx Robin John