[Phpwiki-talk] Installation Help

[Arthaey A. <ar...@gm...>]

I recently downloaded phpwiki-1.3.10 onto my Mandrake 9.2 computer,
running MySQL 4.0.15, PHP (looks like version 4.3.2, maybe... how do I
check?), and Apache2 (mod_perl/1.99_09 Perl/v5.8.1 auth_mysql/1.11
mod_ssl/2.0.47 OpenSSL/0.9.7b PHP/4.3.2). I have several questions
about installing PhpWiki, and this mailing list seemed the best place
to ask them. So:

1. When I extracted the tarball, the files all had user id of 1000 and
group id of 513. I have no such user or group ids defined on my
system. Are these just standard ids for PhpWiki, or do I have a
problem? If the former, what would be some good names to assign to
those numbers? If the latter, what needs to be fixed?

2. I installed MySQL for use with PhpWiki. I followed the installation
guide and part of the tutorial for MySQL; it appears to be running
fine. INSTALL-mysql tells me to edit index.php's $DBParams -- but
there's no mention of it in my index.php! Grepping for "DBParams" show
that it appears in several lib files, SOAP.php and wiki, but not in
index.php. What happened?

3. Supposedly PhpWiki works out of the box -- but what directory
should I set this box in? :) I installed Apache2 so I could use
PhpWiki, thus I'm new to Apache as well. I do have it set up and
successfully serving regular HTML pages (via router port forwarding,
if that matters to PhpWiki). Do I just drop the whole phpwiki-1.3.10
directory into /var/www and cross my fingers? If Apache already has
PHP support, do I have to do anything special to turn it on so that it
executes PHP pages?


Thanks much.

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AA