[ale] php & apache2 on debian

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Mon Mar 9 06:24:47 EDT 2009


On Mon March 9 2009, Kenneth Ratliff wrote:
> Generally speaking, with Debian, it's a good idea to make friends with
> the /usr/share/doc directory. For many many Debian packages,
> particularly web based apps, they won't 'just work' when you apt them
> in. You generally have to either include a predefined config file, or
> add an Alias, or some other minor configuration detail in order to get
> them visible from the web servers point of view. Pretty much every
> package has a directory under /usr/share/doc and they all have a
> README.Debian file or something similar. Some packages are installed
> in a non working state on purpose, and you have to read the Debian
> specific documentation to make it work.

thanks, I'll looked around /usr/share/apache2, /usr/share/php5, 
and /usr/share/doc/apache2.. all the doc files are .gz.. I'm sure there is a 
command to pcat those, but I'm not familiar with it.. Now this will have to 
wait for next weekend.. back to my wonderful full-time job with 10 hour days. 
at least it is work, though nowhere near IT..

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Paul Cartwright
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