Re: Okay I give up

["Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

php is a cross platform scripting language - you can install it on windows
or linux.

chmod is a unix built-in utility for changing permissions on a file. If
you're doing all
this on windows, then you won't have chmod (unless you install something
like cygwin to
let you have a pseudo-unix on windows, but I don't think you want to do
that)

Permissions are quite different on unix from windows - for example, to run
something in
unix, you would set the execute bit in the permissions. Typically, when
downloading stuff,
the resulting file would not be executable, so that's when you'd want to
chmod it to make
it executable.

There's been discussion on here about .htaccess files - this allows you to
set things up
on a per-directory basis. But you can set up permissions in a global manner
by changing
your httpd.conf and restarting apache.

HTH
Paul


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>
To: "Ukha_D (E-mail)" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:03 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Okay I give up


> I was impressed with someone's "Gallery" the other night so
I thought I would install
Gallery....
>
> In the documentation is says you can install it on Apache, so I
thought I would install
Apache....
>
> I have tried and tried to get Authentication to work on Apache but can
not, despite
reading all the articles I can find.
>
> So as I can access my "stuff" from the web via Apache I
thought I would look into the
"Gallery" program, so I was going through the install files when
it said..
>
> PHP.ini.
> "while you are at it, check the line in php.ini (usually stored
in C:\winnt\php.ini)
>
> Well I looked and I aint got such a file..... where does that come
from.. is this Linux
stuff?
>
> Obviously installing this type of software assumes you know something
about what ever
this software is? somewhere I read something about downloading a file and
chmod(?) it,
what is that?
>
> Obviously I am way over my head but I so want to understand this type
of thing but every
time I try and follow instructions I immediately come across something that
I have never
heard off, where do you start to learn this? are you all programmers?
>
> The only reason for learning Apache is I can not get IIS to work! I
have absolutely no
one to help me with this type of stuff and do not even know what book I
could read to
learn it.
>
> I bought a book entitled "Teach yourself ASP.NET" then
someone said ASP and ASP.NET are
2 separate things so have not opened it....
>
> Maybe I should just give up and admit defeat? am I the only one that
finds this sooooo
frustrating?
>
> Going for a long lie down now..........
>
> B.
>
>
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