Trying to setup PHP-Nuke

[scoopy]

Need a push in right direction here. My goal is to create a php-nuke website, currently hosted in my local Linux box.

 

Installed via RPM are:

apache 1.3.26-6.1mdk (+ common, conf, manual, and modules)

php 4.2.3-1mdk (+common)

MySQL 3.23.52-1.3mdk (+client)

webmin 0.990-6mdk

 

Installed by untarring in new folder under /var/www/html:

php-nuke 6.0

 

What I was sortof expecting here was to have somekind of site that I could open up in a browser and begin to configure/design, but what I get is a page of cryptic php code at index.php or admin.php, etc.

 

Apache runs and produces its default page at localhost (or 127.0.0.1)

 

MySQL is up and running

 

[root@localhost /]# service mysql status

mysqld (pid 2809) is running...

2808 (pid 2807) is running...

 

As per the instructions that came with PHP-Nuke, I would edit the config.php file to suit my needs and then it should automatically create the needed database and to set up a superuser or admin.

 

Here is the default config, which seems to me to be correct:

 

$dbhost = "localhost";

$dbuname = "root";

$dbpass = "";

$dbname = "nuke";

$prefix = "nuke";

$user_prefix = "nuke";

$dbtype = "MySQL";

 

What do I need to do to get this admin.php page running correctly (I prefer not to tackle that manuel method of setup)?

[treeg]

Nice basic tutorial at http://www.trylinuxsd.com/nuke/ (and info on the Admin account at http://www.trylinuxsd.com/nuke/pages/nuke9.html ).

[Cannonfodder]

Mystified had the same issue a while back. Her apache configuration files didn't have the correct entry for PHP so they were not being completed correctly.

[scoopy]

Thanks treeg, a tutorial even I could follow. This pointed out that maybe I needed to install mod-php, which I did, and now it seems things are working.