Mint 19 and LAMP. PHP Not Working

[jobo]

Hi All,
Quite new to linux. Have a small comp on which I've installed mint 19. On my windows machine I run wamp so I figured I'd checkout LAMP. oh my goodness. While the index.html file loads up, no php file will. First of all the var/www/html file is locked and I can't add, edit or remove any files within it. I found a way to resolve that. I make a php info file and drop it in there. It's not executing the php. I just get a white screen in the browser. I've been at this for two days now. Yesterday I was at least able to see the un-parsed code using "view page source". I removed all packages installed yesterday and started fresh today. Now I don't even get the unparsed code in view page source. phpmyadmin doesn't load. says page not found.

Even If I have to remove all packages again and start fresh again. I would really like to have this working and your help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you, John

[kukamuumuka]

You have no privileges. Run

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sudo usermod -a -G www-data your_username_here
sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www/html
sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www/html

[jobo]

ok. so yes I had no privileges, but there were other problems too. I did get the privileges straightened out but still couldn't log into mysql through terminal or phpmyadmin. not knowing how to thoroughly remove all that had been installed I just started over completely which I've actually done 3 more times since then. I have it working now though. Looking back .... I've had it right since the 2nd re-install of mint. The trouble in getting logged into mysql wasn't that a password wasn't be stored correctly, but instead that I had to create a new user as root is for some reason restricted.

Got it now and am moving forward.

What's the best way to take a snapshot of my system right now that I'd be able to reset to later on?

Thanks a bunch,
John

[kukamuumuka]

See the next topic ->
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=265925&p=1445406&h ... n#p1445406

[kukamuumuka]

ok. so yes I had no privileges, but there were other problems too. I did get the privileges straightened out but still couldn't log into mysql through terminal or phpmyadmin. not knowing how to thoroughly remove all that had been installed I just started over completely which I've actually done 3 more times since then. I have it working now though. Looking back .... I've had it right since the 2nd re-install of mint. The trouble in getting logged into mysql wasn't that a password wasn't be stored correctly, but instead that I had to create a new user as root is for some reason restricted.

In Mint 19 the first mysql user must be create via command line.
https://puolanka.info/goto/apache-and-p ... d-mint-19/

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sudo mysql -p -u root

mysql> CREATE USER 'username_here'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password_here';

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'username_here'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Replace username_here with real username and password_here with real mysql password.