httpd.conf PHP configuration file

Anon

Well, this might sound stupid. But i am kinda stuck here. I am from a windows background and now my company is in a process of switching over to Linux.
I have to make some changes to httpd.conf file. Its a php configuration file but i am just not able to find it in the file hierarchy structure on the Red-hat linux box. I know it has to be somewhere - any guesses ?? Any ideas what folder do i look in - any particular folder that has to have it ??? or any command line prompt that would able to help me locate the file. I have all the rights and permissions - so that is not a problem.

theslinky

It should be in the conf directory of whereever apache is installed in.

Usually apache is installed under /usr/local/apache.

You're likely to find the httpd.conf file in one of the following directories:

/usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
/etc/httpd/httpd.conf
/etc/httpd.conf
/usr/local/etc/httpd.conf
/www/conf/httpd.conf (very unlikely... i usually install apache under /www)

If you want, you can run a system-wide search from the command prompt:

(assuming # is your prompt🙂

cd /

find . -name "httpd.conf" -print

The above find command will find and print out the location of any file that has a name httpd.conf. Use * to denote wildcards.

Also, the find syntax may be different. The above command works on Solaris (a type of UNIX), but I think it works in linux/BSD w/o any problems as well.

You can look up the syntax for the find command by typing in:

man find

This way you can make sure of the command syntax before searching.

Also note: if you search from /, it will usually take a long time for the search to complete (unless you're running a supercomputer :-).

If you really can't find the file, ask the person who installed the server software (unless you installed it!).

-sridhar

Anon

ACtually httpd.conf is your apache web server configuration file. But they probably want you to add the php integration to httpd.conf. So your httpd.conf is somewhere under the default install of apache, try cd /etc/httpd/conf. Failing that, try $find . httpd.conf.

Hope this helps.

frankie
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