install via ftp...

davidska

Hey, im working on a website for this company, and i changed all of their form to email stuff to php, the problem is that php is not enabled on their server. What file structure and files for that matter do i need in order to make this work. I have to ftp into their server. This is the first time ive used php, and i am in the dark.

thanks in advance

~David

Nothsa

Well, you could upload the files to the server through FTP, but to install it you're going to have to be able to run commands on the server. You'll need to connect using something like 'SSH' or (if you have to) 'Telnet'.

SSH would be better because it's link is encrypted.

davidska

sorry, i have never done anything like this before, could you be more specific on what i need to do?

thanks
~David

Nothsa

Well, first thing is, is it a windows or a linux server?

I'm not familiar with windows servers as I only use linux for servers. If it's linux, you're going to need:

1 - an SSH server already running on the server

2 - an SSH client on your machine so that you can connect to the server (needless to say you also need login and password information)

3 - RPM's or source code files for PHP

4 - if you're using MySQL and it isn't installed on the server, you need the RPMs or source code for that too.

5 - If you're not installing PHP as a module, you also need the source code for the webserver that's on it so that you can compile PHP into the webserver's binary.

Once you have all of those you can begin compiling them (or just installing them if you're using the RPMs).

jerdo

I would suggest contacting whoever runs their server and tell them they need to install php.