PHP web

INSTALL AND CONFIGURE PHP

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. It is a fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

Installing PHP

# yum install php

1. Increasing PHP script memory limit

# vi /etc/php.ini

replace

memory_limit = 16M to memory_limit = 128M

2. Increasing PHP script max execution time

# vi /etc/php.ini

replace max_execution_time = 30 to max_execution_time = 120

3. Increasing PHP script max upload size

# vi /etc/php.ini

replace max_upload_size = 2M to max_upload_size = 50M

4. # vi /etc/php.ini

replace post_max_size = 8M to post_max_size = 50M

Additional steps

# mkdir /usr/share/phpinfo # vi /usr/share/phpinfo/index.php

<?php

phpinfo();

Change permissions on the index.php

# chmod 0755 /usr/share/phpinfo/index.php # vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpinfo.conf

# phpinfo – PHP utility function for displaying php configuration

# Allows only localhost by default

Alias /phpinfo /usr/share/phpinfo

order deny,allow

deny from all

allow from 127.0.0.1

</Directory>

Restart Apache Server

# /etc/init.d/httpd restart # service httpd restart

Testing

On any browser you have installed, point the URL as http://localhost/phpinfo

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