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Lobster · Posted: Sun 17 Aug 2008, 12:07 Post subject: How to add PHP to Hiawatha server?

Been looking at Hiawatha Server in Puppy Dingo+1 Alpha6 . . .
Works OK
ahem . . .
but I need a PHP server - is it available? As a pet - or Slackware or part of a Lamp module . . .

Lobster · Posted: Sun 17 Aug 2008, 15:52 Post subject:

Just about to try this PHP .pet. . . details soon . . .
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=164304&search_id=842690634#164304

OK I have installed it - eh now what . . . ?

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4821 Location: Manila

Put this in a test.php file:

Lobster · Posted: Tue 19 Aug 2008, 08:07 Post subject:

Thanks Raffy I may well be calling on your Lamp expertise Smile

LAMP is one of the most successful usages of Linux
LAMP is used in critical situations were un-operating and micky mouse operating systems (mentioning no names - ahem - Windows) are not robust enough

L = Linux
A = Apache Server
M = MySQL
P = PHP

What is it? What can you do?

Well the Puppy equivalent would be to use Hiawatha as the server component . . .

Basically you could have a server on an intranet or the internet with a URL - independent of an ISP

PHP generates HTML webpages
so it can grab data from any source (usually a database)
and generate pages . . .

What does this mean?
Well Eric in Canada (who very kindly sent me a Puppy T shirt with Vincent on it)
provides server space - he has taught himself . . .
The server is hosted elsewhere . . .

But what if we start moving some puppy programs
onto our own servers?

Or creating an online database?
We too can learn and test using Hiawatha . . .

This is why this is in cutting edge
. . . playtime continues . . .

http://hiawatha.leisink.org/

Cool

P.S. Puppy says woof woof

boscobearbank · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 63 Location: MN

I'm very interested in this, but can't seem to get php to run under hiawatha. I did a default install of php-5.2.5-i486.pet. Adding the following to /etc/hiawatha/httpd.conf:

Lobster · Posted: Wed 20 Aug 2008, 05:19 Post subject:

I am finding 4.1 Alpha 6 too unstable to continue
I may try to install hiawatha as a pet - is it available?
and Php on Puppy 4
or use another machine . . .

Keep us informed and advised - maybe able to use another computer tonight . . .

rob · Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 50

I waffle a bit in the next paragraph. Feel free to skip it.

I've been waiting for PHP support within puppy for a long while now. PHP is basically a fully fledged programming language. It is written in C++ and it shines!!! In the future, it would be possible to run commands like they can be run in a terminal. Remote controlling puppy becomes much easier, for example, by having a music or video server controlled via a mobile phone web browser. Ok. I got a bit carried away, but this will be one of my first projects once a stable version of php is available.

Back to the task, below is some sample code. You type in an address in your browser on pc1. The browser on pc1 asks the webserver on pc2 for a page (index.php). The webserver on pc2 checks to see what it should do to the file based on its settings. It should, for .php files, be set to send them to a php parser. php then parses the file returning the "answer" to those parts of the code inside <? and ?> tags, but leaving the rest intact. If it is not set to parse the file (.htm files for example are sometimes set not to be parsed) the webserver will return all of the file, including the php tags <? and ?> without processing them. <? to ?> is invalid html and so will not be rendered when received by the web browser. This will result in the title "PHP Test" in the following example if not parsed or "PHP Test Working" if PHP is parsing the file correctly.

Lobster · Posted: Wed 20 Aug 2008, 23:04 Post subject:

Lobster · Posted: Tue 14 Oct 2008, 17:42 Post subject:

Lobster · Posted: Thu 16 Oct 2008, 21:47 Post subject:

Now working in Puppy 4.1

growler · Posted: Fri 24 Oct 2008, 05:01 Post subject: PHP and Mysql

I made a pet of mysql 5.0.67 and PHP 5.2.6 - I compiled the latest vesions as of around 13th Oct. immediately after the availability of devx410.sfs

My .pet is less than 9Meg - so way smaller than the monster LAMP systems around and uses Hiawatha - already in puppy 4.1. It has an install script that creates the mysql tables etc and sets things up so it just works - the server is started at each boot (and post installation). PHP works as a Fast CGI program (not as a module - as it can with Apache) - and performance seems pretty good. Running as a module is theoretically faster but I'm not sure this is still true. Also Apache is a massive memory hog.

Simply install the pet from

[edited and again] for download of the latest see:
http://www.weberp.org/PuppyLinux
[/edited]

then point a browser to

http://localhost/

to see the output of

phpinfo()

this shows the versions and system variables etc. and proves php is working.

You simply install php application below

/root/httpd/hiwatha - the web document directory.

I have made hiawatha and mysql run as the user nobody.

BTW - also included is the phpMyAdmin 3.00 php mysql administration tool.

http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/

you'll need to login as the user root - password is blank by default - this should be changed -see the mysql manual for details on how to change the mysql root user's password.

growler · Posted: Fri 24 Oct 2008, 05:06 Post subject: PHP and Mysql

Lobster · Posted: Fri 24 Oct 2008, 07:05 Post subject:

Excellent we need some testers and maybe even an SFS
Smile

This complete PHP+MYSQL pet - great stuff - just tried, seems OK
A good name for this is the English version of 'streetlight' - Lamppost
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=242811#242811

Thanks for putting it together growler Smile

growler · Posted: Fri 24 Oct 2008, 15:41 Post subject: LAMP or PHMP

LAMP

L inux
A pache
M ysql
P HP

But we are using

P uppy Linux
H iawatha
M ysql
P HP

But the world knows the platform as LAMP so probably best to stick with the brand that is so well known.

I wanted to make a .sfs as I had done for 3.01 and 4.00 but because I had to modify the config of Hiawatha the squash file could not over-write the /etc/hiawatha/httpd.conf file in pup_410.sfs due to the sequence of the filesystem layers I guess. I already posted on the subject but no-one else had any ideas - or at least didn't respond.

Also since I compiled without PEAR and mysql without clustering, the test-suite or documentation etc the size of the applications are much more managable - PHP is just 3 Meg uncompressed. Mysql has become huge but this way again it is more managable. I was pleased to get the .pet with the whole shbang in at 8.5 Meg.

Since .pet works more easily with a HD install (no manual extraction to the .sfs files to the root directory) and it is so easy to uninstall I am happy with just having the .pet - I suspect once installed and the imagination of a developer captured it will never be uninstalled and no future machine will be complete without PHMPing my puppy ride.

gmlogan · Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 1

Hi,
I installed the package pet file, and a basic PHP page works as long as I ref as http://localhost/ (so loopback) but when I use the real IP http://192.168.1.9/ it simply passes the file unprocessed.

Thanks in advance.