First of all thanks for the clues. On 6/16/09, Richard Toohey <richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > On 16/06/2009, at 7:08 PM, Richard Toohey wrote: > >> [1] the index.php is really in /var/www/conf?
No, it was another typo in mail, It's in /var/www/htdocs. >> [2] you meant the index.php not to be valid PHP? No <?php [code] ? >> > on purpose? Actually at first it was pure php but I changed it for testing purposes, Now: $ cat /var/www/htdocs/index.php <!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Agent47 Test Page for Apache Installation</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <?php echo("Hello PHP!") ?> </body> </html> > [4] What happens if you try > > php index.php $php /var/www/htdocs/index.php <!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Agent47 Test Page for Apache Installation</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> Hello PHP! </body> </html> > [5] What happens if you disable the mysql extension - just get php > core working first? I removed mysql extension but no luck ... :( > [6] Anything from php -v or php -m that gives any clues? $ php -v PHP 5.2.8 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.3 (cli) (built: Mar 1 2009 15:20:21) Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies with Suhosin v0.9.27, Copyright (c) 2007, by SektionEins GmbH $ php -m [PHP Modules] bcmath calendar ctype date dom exif filter ftp gettext hash iconv json libxml mysqli openssl pcre PDO posix Reflection session SimpleXML sockets SPL standard suhosin sysvsem sysvshm tokenizer wddx xml xmlreader xmlwriter zlib [Zend Modules] Suhosin > [7] Did you really mean to install php5-mysql and mysql-SERVER? > You might have meant mysql-CLIENT - makes more sense. No, I also needed mysql-server.