john lewis wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:53:25 +0100
> Jim Kissel <jlk@???> wrote:
> 
>>> [Mon Apr 02 12:45:21 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Negotiation:
>>> discovered file(s) matching
>>> request: /home/jayell/public_html/exodus/exodus (None could be
>>> negotiated).
>> You tried http://hostname/exodus  but the sub-directory exodus
>> doesn't exist.  Put an index.html file in the exodus directory and
>> try http://hostname/index.html
> 
> Hi Jim
> 
> That works :) or rather http://localhost/exodus/index.html works
> 
> so it seems apache2 out of the box can't read php files as if I
> substitute 'index.php' for 'index.html' opera tries to 'download' it.
> 
> I have now installed libapache2-mod-php5 which removed
> apache2-mpm-worker and replaced it with apache2-mpm-prefork
> 
> I then used the php.ini file from
>  /usr/share/doc/php5-common/examples/php.ini-recommended 
> instead of the installation php.ini per 
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/357
> 
> still can't get it to display index.php so am giving up for today
> and will try again tomorrow when brain is less fuzzy 
Glad you are making some progress.  I can't help with php. My web 
programming has all been  perl.
> 
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