[BlueOnyx:13783] Re: Is there a way of using PHP (for WordPress install) from the Content Preview web page(s)?

[Richard L de S Clauson]

Many thanks to Maurice de Laat for suggesting that I should make a local 
change to the "hosts" file such that the domain I'm trying to do the 
WordPress install for is pointed directly at the web server it is hosted on.

e.g.
...
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  www.domain.co.uk domain.co.uk
...

(This will catch both the with and the without "www." prefix versions of the 
domain.)

Your, Maurice, suggestion arrived at about the same time as that from a 
discussion with the company that manages the company's web servers.  They 
couldn't see a way of adding the PHP "is installed" bits to the 
etc/..../vhosts/preview file either, but they don't know BlueOnyx.

So using the "Preview" way of viewing a website still doesn't work if it 
used PHP.  Shame.

--
Richard L de S Clauson
Virbius Business, Reading, +44 (0) 844-588-1397 (fax 0870-879-1562)
( mailto:richard at virbius.co.uk      - mobile: +44 (0) 7710 412815    )
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 1:10:54 PM, Richard L de S Clauson (blueonyx at virbius.co.uk) wrote:
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> Is there a way of using PHP (for WordPress install) from the Content Preview
> web page(s)?
>
> I've set up a new virtual website, using 5108R, and ticked the "Preview Site
> Configuration" option while creating it.  I then, via FTP, uploaded the 
> version of WordPress I wanted to install (a slightly earlier version than 
> one used successfully elsewhere on the same web server).
>
> Because the domain hasn't yet been released to us, and because I wanted to 
> get up and running the same WordPress installation as the current one, I 
> couldn't just go and run the install script via the actual domain, hence 
> trying to do it via the Preview pages.
>
> i.e.
> not via http://www.domain.co.uk/wp-admin/install.php 
> but via http://www.svr.co.uk/www.domain.co.uk/wp-admin/install.php
>
> This doesn't work, and IE, Firefox, and Chrome all try to download the file,
> which on inspection says at the start "PHP not installed" (or similar).
>
> I can open http://www.svr.co.uk/www.domain.co.uk/readme.html so I know that 
> the Preview is looking in the correct place, but that it just won't run any 
> PHP files!
>
> Is there any special tricks, any change of settings, such as in the files in
> the /etc/http/conf/vhosts directory, or anywhere else inside the BlueOnyx 
> interface, or outside in the Linux file system?  HELP!!
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Richard L de S Clauson
> Virbius Business, Reading, +44 (0) 844-588-1397 (fax 0870-879-1562)
> ( mailto:richard at virbius.co.uk      - mobile: +44 (0) 7710 412815    )
> ( http://www.virbius.co.uk/         - more is hidden than viewable ! )
>
>
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