How do I run PHP script on linux?

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Sorry, I am a new in Linux and Php, so I have been struggling to run a script, mainly because all the practice I did was on a file called index.php in my var/www/html directory. I would like to run a script from a different folder, as in this one I cannot create any other files and so I can not work on my project. How am I supposed to do that and how will I be able to run the script afterwards on localhost?

What I have tried:

I tried creating a script in other directory but couldn't run it on localhost, or I just don't know how.

Posted 21-Jan-17 12:46pm

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Updated 10-Aug-19 6:51am

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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan 22-Jan-17 4:00am

You need to configure the server to load the script from another directory.

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Peter Leow · Answer 1 · 2017-01-21T16:14:00

Solution 1

If you insist not to run you script from default folder, then check this out: [^]

Posted 21-Jan-17 16:14pm

Peter Leow

jhovyn · Answer 2 · 2017-02-16T22:14:00

Solution 2

You have to make your var/www/html in full access

chmod 777 var/www/html

Posted 16-Feb-17 22:14pm

jhovyn

Updated 16-Feb-17 23:15pm

SalimF · Answer 3 · 2019-08-10T06:51:00

you can run php script even with web server "e.g in case you only need to send and receive certain input/output " just add

CSS

#!/usr/bin/php-cgi -f

in very top of your php file and change it to excitable with this command

chmode +x /yourpath/index.php

when you want to run it us it name and hit enter

/yourpath/index.php