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Authored by: pairof9s on Nov 14, '03 10:11:26AM
Sorry for the elementary question but I'm new to this and want to explore the options.

That said, I'm having no luck getting the above hint to run properly in Terminal. It gives me "command not found" when getting to the LoadModule lines.

Am I missing something very fundamental here that the original post did not feel needed to be shown?

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Newbie question
Authored by: MtnBiker on Nov 14, '03 01:59:29PM

Yes, very fundamental. Those are lines in the httpd.conf file to be edited. And the /etc/httpd/ is the folder. I'll try to put down a GUI way to do it.

In the finder, type Cmd-shift-G and then put in /etc/httpd/ which will open up that folder (since these are hidden, it is difficult to get there otherwise). Or, even better and more direct, In TextEdit, Cmd-O, and in the open dialog box, Cmd-Shift-G which brings up another little window where you type the same /etc/httpd/, hit enter and you're looking at the folder and then you can open the httpd.conf file and make the changes. That is remove the # from the beginning of the two lines shown in the original hint. You'll probably be asked for system admin password.
I usually put in a line beginning with a # (comment) and I write a note to myself about the change I made. To be safe, you can save a copy of the original file somewhere, either in the same folder with a name such as httpd.conf.originalAsOf14Nov03 or wherever else you want.

Thanks to recent hint for the Cmd-shift-g in the open dialog method.
Also note the corrections on the test file: add paratheses to phpinfo
You can restart Apache by going to System Preferences>Sharing, select Personal Web Sharing, click on stop, wait, then click on start. Not as geeky, but safer.
Also the geek would modify the file using a command line editor, but I'm a GUI type person.

PS. Thanks to the whomever answered my question about the differences between Panther PHP and Livanage PHP.

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RE:Newbie question
Authored by: pairof9s on Nov 14, '03 02:34:37PM

Thanks! That did the trick.



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