Hi,
did your post mean MartL ? I got tons of mails about MartL having replied to....
but seems like all his posts have been deleted (I know it's a little bit OT) 😉
Regarding your problem, I would suggest to look if you can find a tutorial about first steps on Linux, it would help a lot.
On SuSE the configuration is in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.
Only root can stop and start the apache server. It will then start the tasks under the user configured in httpd.conf
Did you also install the rpm package mod_php4-4.x.x ?
The php is distributed as separate package, you'll have to install it before you're able to use it.
After installing php you can configure it by editing /etc/php.ini but I don't think that this is neccessary for the first tests.
The DocumentRoot of the apache standard installation is in /usr/local/httpd/htdocs. You can place your php scripts there to test if everything works fine.
The command to change a directory is cd, e.g. cd /usr/local/httpd/htdocs.
Hope this helps you a little bit 🙂
Regards,
Thomas