phpBB on fedora core 4 - Help

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willirob

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I'm a n00b when it comes to apache stuff - busy installing phpBB.

Would appreciate any help as I come across problems:

Question 1:

Have created a new user phpbb and installed the phpBB2 software in the home directory. Have added the /home/phpbb/phpBB2 directory to the document root in httpd conf but am getting 403 Forbidden error when I try to access the phpBB2 stuff. I realise this is a permissions thing - how do I resolve this without giving world permissions on the home directory
 
AFAIK, the apache user or even "web" user needs permission to access the files, not phpbb.

In debian it is www-data which needs permission but you have to find out what it is under fedora. try ls -l in the /var/www directory to see who owns the files in there.
 
thanks nic777

changed permissions on the home/phpbb dir to 711 did the trick
 
Ok - my woes continue, have all software loaded trying to configure phpBB2.

I get the following message from the install page:

The PHP configuration on your server doesn't support the database type that you chose

have googled this and found :

PHP 5+

MySQL is not enabled by default, nor is the MySQL library bundled with PHP. Read this FAQ for details on why. Use the --with-mysql[=DIR] configure option to include MySQL support. You can download headers and libraries from MySQL.

my question is this: how do I configure php (5) to use MySQL(4)

any help appreciated - thanks
 
Great - thanks - did the trick. thought I was going to have ro recompile or something.

Thanks for you help dude
 
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