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Reputation: 307

How to start with PHP on Ubuntu

I am newbie in PHP. I have successfully installed PHP on Ubuntu, now I want start my first program. I am using gPHPEdit as IDE. Where should I save .php files that I create? And how to run/test them?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 42531

Answers (5)

user5730329
user5730329

Reputation:

https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php

this is an easy way to test your files in php.

$ cd ~/public_html
$ php -S localhost:8000

then you can go to your browser and enter localhost:8000/myfile.php.

Upvotes: 0

vinit kantrod
vinit kantrod

Reputation: 1366

remove the index.html file from /var/www/

$ sudo rm index.html

create a new php file there:

$ sudo gedit /var/www/index.php

write in it:

<?php
print_r(phpinfo());
?>

Restart your Apache2 Server :

$ sudo service apache2 restart

OR

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apace2 restart

and point to yout localhost and /index.php

if err arises visit : http://www.allaboutlinux.eu/how-to-run-php-on-ubuntu/

Upvotes: 1

favourworks
favourworks

Reputation: 131

If you cannot save or copy to var/www/html, to run your php scripts on your browser. If you are using Ubuntu 14.04. I followed these steps and it worked for me.

  1. Execute sudo su on the terminal.
  2. Enter your password
  3. Execute sudo subl /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf on your terminal to open this file. Note you can change the subl to any text editor to open the file e.g sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf.
  4. Change DocumentRoot /var/www/html to /home/user/yoursubdir
  5. Save the file and close it.
  6. Execute sudo subl /etc/apache2/apache2.conf on your terminal to open this file.

  7. Add the following to end of the file 

    <Directory /home/user/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

  8. Save and Close the file.

  9. Execute sudo service apache2 restart
  10. Go to your browser, type the URL of your script e.g 127.0.1.1/directory/document.php.

I hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

rook
rook

Reputation: 67039

Make sure you have LAMP installed. Do a sudo tasksel and select lamp then hit enter, its gotta be the most simple *amp install ever made. Its a good idea to install phpmyadmin: sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin. After that just copy the files to /var/www/ and then they will show up on http://localhost. I recommended using Eclipse PDT or the Netbeans build for PHP.

Upvotes: 4

Munim
Munim

Reputation: 6520

You should pick up a book or start following some good tutorials on the web.
If you are just scripting using php, you can save them anywhere and run the php on the terminal using the php command line interpreter.
If you are trying write web scripts (and I think you are), you need to install and configure a web server (typically apache) and save your scripts in the server's document root (typically /var/www). Also, I highly recommend you to read up a little about servers and HTTP and figure out how all this works on the inside before learning to building websites in php.

Upvotes: 1

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