PHP problems

STaN

hi

Im trying to develop PHP on my local machiene. Ive read this tutorial on how to setup PHP on my machiene. (in windows)

I installed apache, and extracted php4. I changed all the values like it says, but when i do the test: http://localhost/ it goes to a folder on my HD (c:\development) and displays the folder contents.
Also i put a phpinfo.php file in there to test if php was working.

Inside the file:
<? phpinfo() ?>

and when opened in http://localhost/phpinfo.php
it only shows the text of the file.

Where could i have gone wrong? Or should i start from scratch.
If you need any more info on what i did i can give it to you, but i am relatively new to this.

dahamsta

I installed apache, and extracted php4. I changed all the values like it says, but when i do the test: http://localhost/ it goes to a folder on my HD (c:\development) and displays the folder contents.

I presume you mean it displays the contents of the folder like a directory listing on a website?

Also i put a phpinfo.php file in there to test if php was working.

Inside the file:
<? phpinfo() ?>

and when opened in http://localhost/phpinfo.php
it only shows the text of the file.

Apache hasn't been configured to send .php requests to the PHP module. Upload your httpd.conf to the web somewhere for us to look at.

adam

STaN

Ive uploaded it here.

Also its extremely difficult to do the http://localhost/ and sometimes it doesnt work casue its always asking me to dialup and connect. And when i click work offline it doesn't show up

dahamsta

Ok, let's get Apache working first. What OS are you running please?

adam

STaN

Im running win98 SE.

Thanx for helping btw

misterq

On a windows box the easiest method to get PHP & Apache running is PHP Triad [1], which installs PHP, Apache & MySQL.

Ronan

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/phptriad/

STaN

But the thing is that i have the 3 on my computer and that thing is downloading at about 600 bytes per second

dahamsta

I have to ask the obvious question first: Is Apache running? It doesn't look like it is...

Start > Program Files > Apache > Start Apache

It mightn't look exactly like that, but it shouldn't be far off.

adam

STaN

Yes apache 1.3 is running in a little ms-dos window

dahamsta

Yes apache 1.3 is running in a little ms-dos window

Any messages in the window?

adam

peterd

A simple set up and installation of Apache/mySQL/PHP = Foxserv [1]


[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/foxserv/

mneylon

You could try PHP Dev
It gives you a combination of Apache, PHP and MySQL. Installation took me about 5 mins.

STaN

Any messages in the window?

It says:

Apache/1.3.23 <Win32> running...

Thats all it says

dahamsta

Odd. And when you try to load http://localhost/ you're not getting a file list (or page) from "C:/Apache/Apache/htdocs"? (This directory does exist, doesn't it?) How about http://127.0.0.1/? Is there a file in your windows directory called 'hosts'?

adam

STaN

Nope, for some reason it is going to C:\Development and showing the directory as a a browser would.

Would going for one of those downloads above be the best option?

STaN

Also, the phpinfo.php came up just as text which isnt right afaik, is it?

Or does PHP only work in specified directories?

Yerac

I don't want to cut across the discussion or anything here but about the thing where it's trying to dial up and stuff.
Working offline you should still not have any problems, just make sure that when you're trying to go to http://localhost for example that the "work offline" option under file is not ticked. It shouldn't prompt you to dial in if you're going to localhost.

All this is under the assumption that you are using IE.

There are a lot of people more up on Apache installations etc than me, but just checking my install here I've got a line
##########################

# for the apache module
LoadModule php4_module d:/php/sapi/php4apache.dll
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

############################

I would say try that instead of where these lines are :

# make certain files to be certain types.
#
AddType application/x-tar .tgz
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml


and comment out the line with action application too.

The script alias line is new to me too so that might worth commenting out for tests too.

One other thing I've overlooked with an install is putting the php.ini file in the system directory.

STaN

They new additions worked in that apache now reads:

Apache/1.3.23 <Win32> PHP/4.1.1 running...

although it still shows php up as normail text

STaN

I figured out what the problem was:

Personal Web Server was running in my system tray. It must have been interfering with apache. I disabled it and now everything works fine.

Thanx for all those who helped.