On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:24:31 +0000 Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:37:30PM +0000, Chris Walker wrote:
I want to run Geneotree (http://www.geneotree.com/) so I downloaded it and extracted the files from the zip.
I'm not familiar with PHP stuff so I put them in /home/chris/geneotree. There are lots of php files and a few folders but how do I run the thing?
When you say 'run' this, is it just a standalone program written in PHP (quite possible, though not all that common) or is it a PHP web application? If it's a web application then you need to be running a web server (probably Apache) and put the PHP in the place that the web server expects to find PHP programs.
According to the readme file, it says :- ========= All manuals and user guide on GeneoTree Homepage
http://geneotree.sourceforge.net/ =========
except there isn't. Well, I couldn't find it! That means that it's already annoying me and as I have little patience for such things, means I'm likely to delete it!
But if I try once more, by going to localhost/geneotree, I get an error 404 followed by this :- Apache/2.4.7 (Mageia) OpenSSL/1.0.1e PHP/5.5.8
So I'm assuming that Apache is installed and working ok.
All this, just so I can read a gedcom file for a family member. I think I'll just search google for something that does work!