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[Nathan F]

Several people have asked recently on the forum about how to get php running in Puppy. This is how I did it. I'm assuming that this will be done with the Monkey-ws.

I've become quite fond of getting binaries from DSL. They usually work just fine in Puppy and don't take much work to get running. I used gftp and went to the ibiblio mydsl section.

/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/system

I scrolled down until I found php-4-monkey-09. I selected the package and transferred it to my HD. Note that there are several files with almost the same name-choose the one that is largest. I then untarred it to /mnt/data/Share. This could be placed anywhere, however.

By default this will create /opt in the location you send it to. I opened /mnt/data/Share/opt and found two directories, /monkey and /php. I then moved the /php directory to /mnt/data/Share. Once again this can be placed anywhere in your filesystem.

Next I edited my monkey config file to show it where to find php. Here are the appropriate lines with my addition.

[Lobster]

well worth putting in a new section in the wiki

- someone can have a go . . .

to create a new section go to somwhere relevant or sandbox (check the index)

create a Camel case Entry eg ProgrammingPHP or ProgrammingPuppy

click on the entry
doubleclick on the page and cut and paste from the above

let us know how you got on . . .

[raffy]

Nice tip there, Nathan, will try it this weekend.

While i did share a php tarball here in the forum, the environment where it came from is not as sparse as Puppy or MyDSL. So your news is most welcome!