Visvanath Ratnaweera

I think the question itself is some sort of "command line magic" - quick, short and sweet ;)

I have no idea about Mandrake. So far I haven't used PHP5 either.

That phpinfo.php single-liner is a must before you continue.

Your web-server does not support PHP.

http://193.147.169.216/ mentions "Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.48 (Mandrake Linux/6mdk) mod_perl/1.99_11 Perl/v5.8.3 mod_ssl/2.0.48 OpenSSL/0.9.7c!" but no PHP.

You can be sure by creating a file like phpinfo.php in your moodle directory with the single line

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

and calling http://193.147.169.216/moodle/phpinfo.php from a browser.

First check whether this file exists and readable by the webserver:
/homepages/26/d86529376/htdocs/OnCampus/VLE/lib/moodlelib.php

Second thing: see that $CFG->wwwroot is properly set, my guess for your setup is

$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://your.server.dnsname/~d86529376/VLE';

If you tell us which guide and how far you came.

Here is a random test, where you can make a start:

- start a browser on the server itselft (if no X Window System installed, take a command line browser like lynx) and check which URL start a php from Moodle a) http://localhost/ b) http://localhost/moodle/ c) http://your.dns.name/ d) http://your.dns.name/moodle/ , etc.