Well, it seems that despite the linuxquestions site giving great and helpful information – and my YaST apparently having installed Apache 2 and PHP 5, I still cant get the thing to work.
My love of Linux is rapidly running out. This is very frustrating, especially as setting up Apache/MySQL/PHP/CF on a Windows machine took about 10 minutes top and worked perfectly out of the box.
I will perserve but any advice / tips welcome.
I hope you are having more luck.
All I can say here is that Linux has got much easier* and that it is worth making some efforts for Open Source.
If it’s any consolation – my Windows PC has almost never run Apache etc. I used to have three Apache installations running at once, without any of them providing any functionality but it being impossible to uninstall or disable any of them.
* On my first attempt to install Linux almost ten years ago, it took 2 and a half full days to get a screen display before the rest of the installation could even proceed.