I'm a web developer with a love of technology and I'm a bit of an Apple geek
Just after you have finished configuring Apache you are going to need to know how to set it up to handle multiple websites. After all you won’t be just hosting one site on that nice new shiny server will you?
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Well to but it bluntly, this website costs me money to keep running.
I offer tips and tutorials and I hope to offer more in the future and I don’t charge for it. I want the site to be a good source of tips and knowledge. I’m really hoping the site will grow and be of some real use but I need to support it somehow.
Well, soap sometimes comes in bars but these days you often find soap in squirty bottles but of course this isn’t what were talking about at all.
Soap, which stands for Simple Object Access Protocol, is a protocol for transferring information through web services and networks. It’s structure is XML which enables the return data to be parsed by virtually any programming language. SOAP is mainly used in web services and API’s whereby a web site could submit a request for data via SOAP. The application then processes the request and subsequently returns the information required, again via SOAP in XML.
If you are using PHP and you need to check if SOAP is enabled simply set up a very quick phpinfo script to find out. A php info function call will tell you if SOAP is enabled. Create a blank PHP document and enter the following code.
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Upload the php document to your server and run it. Provided everything is correct you should see the PHP Info page. You can then scroll down to find the SOAP entries. I typically use the browsers in built search function to search for SOAP. You should see something like this.
As you can see both the Soap Client and the Soap Server are enabled so were good to go.
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