Re: Newbie problem: Php script not running in browser.

On 8/6/2008 2:58 AM India Time, _Andrew Ballard_ wrote:

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:05 PM, V S Rawat <vsrawat@gmail.com> wrote:

I have put the first php script to hello.php file: <html> <head> <title>PHP Test</title> </head> <body> <?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>'; ?> </body> </html> I am on xpsp3, wampserver 2.0, having apache 2.2.8, php 5.2.6, MySQL 5.0.51b http://localhost/ is E:\wamp\www I put the hello.php file to E:\wamp\www. drag/dropping it to browser shows the above source code in ff3/ie6 putting it to E:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.8\htdocs and drag/dropping it to browser shows the same source code. However, putting it to E:\wamp\www\php_ex but giving http://localhost/hello.php shows a blank screen I have forgotten some situation where it had appeared as Hello World '; ?> on the browser. E:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.8\conf\httpd.conf file has the lines: LoadModule php5_module "e:/wamp/bin/php/php5.2.6/php5apache2_2.dll" AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 On double clicking the php file in windows explorer, it opens in notepad for edit, instead of getting opened in firefox that is my default. Please give me the starting push. -- V

If you simply drag-and-drop the file from an explorer window into Firefox, Firefox will display the page directly from the file system instead of serving it through your web server. (You can tell this because your address bar will say file:///E:/wamp/www/hello.php.) Your browser won't parse the PHP as script; it will just think it is malformed HTML and it would show the output you listed above. Double-clicking the file, or dragging it into IE will try to open the file with whatever program is associated with that extension in Windows. (If there isn't a file association for *.php files, it will either prompt you for a program to handle the file or it might do the same as Firefox. I'm not sure, and I'm not really interested in changing my file associations to test.) IF the file is located at E:\wamp\www\hello.php AND PHP is configured correctly AND your web server's document root is E:\wamp\www\, THEN opening http://localhost/hello.php should work. Andrew

Thanks. k, I will not drag and drop but would open through firefox localhost. giving http://localhost/hello.php is not showing anything at all, just a blank screen. What has gone wrong? -- V