LAMP setup

i am interested in cofiguring LAMP on my opensuse 11.3 can anybody pls help me

The best I have seen on doing this is Swerdnas Howto located Here.

If you're going to allow outside access I'd also recommend running denyhosts. Its for blocking people trying to hack into your box via ssh attacks. If you don't have port 22 open, it may not help any but it can't hurt.

As far as getting a basic LAMP setup its quite easy in suse. Not in suse at the moment but if I recall corrrectly in the software manager there are package groups you can install and one of them is LAMP. The other option is to just select the apache, mysql, and php packages.

cant get local host to work properly , not sure if i have everything configured properly yet. would have to do some more research.

got LAMP working , but am unable to add directories to the www dir.
can anybody tell me how to add directories here to create websites.

Are you trying to add the directories under www as the root user? Your standard user won't access to the directory.

yes.

but i believe i am logged in as admin, how do i go about this?

My normal way of creating directories is through the File Browser - Super User Mode. With it you should just be able to browse to the directory and right click to create a new directory. The other option is command line in su mode, change to the directory, and issue a "mkdir yourdirname".

dont know abouut file browser, i use Kde and i have dolphin-file manager, but i just cant seem to get any joy with it

I guess it is File Manager not File Browser. I also got sloppy and didn't give the full path to it System -> File Manager -> File Manager - Super User Mode.

Did you try the command line way? If it can't create the folder, it should provide some sort of error message at least.

how do i get into super user mode?

At the command line type "su", then enter your root password.

i got that part, but i need to change permissions of the www dir so i can create test websites that i can view under localhost for test purposes

I would be very careful about changing permissions on folders under www, if the server is visible to the internet. To change permissions you'll want to read up on the chmod command. Say you want to give everyone permission to www and its subfolders, the command would be something like "chmod -R 777 www". *caution I may have a parameter out of order didn't read the man pages*

ok i understand
thanks

slightly different from windows, i used to use the localhost as a testing server, for my websites

Right click on screen - run command - and in the white box type kdesu dolphin

thanks.
how do i view html and php pages in the www dir.
i get the "it works" bit but not sure where to place my pages so i can see them.

I think if you install bluefish, you can read and edit those pages.

Bluefish is in the opensuse education repository. I had it once upon a time and it was very powerful and nice to use

There is a good article that might help you here

To edit the php pages you can edit any text editor.

where in the 'www dir' do i place html and php pages, so that i can view them on my local machine?

Right in thee www directory should work. It will look for certain named files, like index.html or .php

thank you i see how it works now . all created files are places after the localhost file, which, yes i know make sense.

Good to hear you've it working.