Problem with Apache & wordpress setup on Ubuntu

grahamor

Hi,

I am trying to install wordpress on my Ubuntu VPS.

I have the site enabled as www.example.com. The file is like

<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin me@example.com
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com

DirectoryIndex index.php
DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com
<Directory /var/www/example.com/>
  AllowOverride All
  Order Deny,Allow
  Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

When i try and visit the address in a browser it seems to be getting stuck in some infinite loop, where it almost loads and then restarts loading.

Before i setup the .htaccess file i was getting a different error, when i tried to visit www.example.com/index.php the download file dialog came up instead of loading the page.

I have 3 other sites enabled that run on Django, they all use <VirtualHost *>

Im not much of a server admin so it could be an issue with something else.

Does anyone know what else i should check to resolve this issue ?

Thanks in advance.

RoadKillTs

Think this is because you dont have PHP installed.
Maybe a mod could move this to the Web Development forum.

oscarBravo

Moved from Open Source.

Hydrosylator

grahamor wrote: »

I have the site enabled as www.example.com. The file is like

<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin me@example.com
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com

DirectoryIndex index.php
DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com
<Directory /var/www/example.com/>
  AllowOverride All
  Order Deny,Allow
  Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Ugh, what's all that stuff?
Get Lampp, it's easy to use, and never gives me any trouble.
I turn it on and off in the terminal.
It has Apache, MySQL, php and I don't know what the last P is.

Actually the people who give it way call it Xampp for Linux, so people don't think they're actually LAMP, which is much more broad.

So go the Xampp for Linux page.

You can use Filezilla and connect to server : 'localhost' and use the user name and passwords you set up for it.

It's the perfect environment for me when I'm developing sites.

grahamor

Thanks for the info everyone.

The .htaccess file was causing the looping

Installed phpMyAdmin and everything is cool.