Bug #1467: Bug in installation documentation causes Fatal Error: Unable to open ..

From: andrew.back@usa.net Operating system: Windows 95 + Omni httpd 2.02 PHP version: 3.0.8 PHP Bug Type: Installation problem Bug description: Bug in installation documentation causes Fatal Error: Unable to open .. This is a bug in the documentation for installing PHP3 under Windows95 with Omni httpd 2.02 Basically, the general instructions are incorrect. If you put in an entry in the doc_root line of the php3.ini file, ie as in: doc_root = c:\httpd\webpages ; you will always get an error message something like: Fatal error: Unable to open c:\httpd\webpages/ in - on line 0 No input file specified. The solution, thanks to the thread by Josevi Spain and Paul Geraghty is to leave it blank, ie: doc_root = ; In this case things work ok. (Ref: http://www.tryc.on.ca/archives/php3/1999_4/0136.html) It would be helpful to users to correct this in the installation docs as soon as you can, by simply changing the following entry in the file <install-windows95-nt.html> from: "Set the 'doc_root' to point to your webservers document_root. ex: c:\apache\htdocs or c:\webroot" to this "If you are using Omni Httpd, DO NOT do the following step. Otherwise, set the 'doc_root' to point to your webservers document_root. ex: c:\apache\htdocs or c:\webroot" Thanks, Andrew -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net