RE: [PHP] Newbie problem: Php script not running in browser.

Can you please check what the Document Root in http.conf Chetan Dattaram Rane | Software Engineer | Persistent Systems chetan_rane@persistent.co.in | Cell: +91 94033 66714 | Tel: +91 (0832) 30 79014 Innovation in software product design, development and delivery- www.persistentsys.com -----Original Message----- From: V S Rawat [mailto:vsrawat@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:22 PM To: Chetan Rane Subject: Re: [PHP] Newbie problem: Php script not running in browser. On 8/6/2008 4:20 PM India Time, _Chetan Rane_ wrote: > Hi > > You need to check if your Apache is up and running do the following > > Right click on My Computer and select "manage" > Next click on Services and Applications > After that Click on Services > > And check if Apache is running Hi Chetan, Yeah, that is listing wampapache, Apache/2.2.8 (Win32) PHP/5.2.6, started, manual, local system, and wampmysqld, started, manual, local system, and I restarted all services from the wamp systray icon. That gave the following entries in apache_error.log [Wed Aug 06 19:06:57 2008] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server. [Wed Aug 06 19:06:57 2008] [notice] Child 3072: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending. [Wed Aug 06 19:06:58 2008] [notice] Child 3072: Released the start mutex [Wed Aug 06 19:06:59 2008] [notice] Child 3072: All worker threads have exited. [Wed Aug 06 19:06:59 2008] [notice] Child 3072: Child process is exiting [Wed Aug 06 19:06:59 2008] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully. [Wed Aug 06 19:06:59 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.8 (Win32) PHP/5.2.6 configured -- resuming normal operations [Wed Aug 06 19:06:59 2008] [notice] Server built: Jan 18 2008 00:37:19 [Wed Aug 06 19:06:59 2008] [notice] Parent: Created child process 1872 [Wed Aug 06 19:07:00 2008] [notice] Child 1872: Child process is running [Wed Aug 06 19:07:00 2008] [notice] Child 1872: Acquired the start mutex. [Wed Aug 06 19:07:00 2008] [notice] Child 1872: Starting 64 worker threads. I gave, check port 80. The dos window that opened said "your port 80 is not used" and the following entry got added in error_log: [Wed Aug 06 19:07:00 2008] [notice] Child 1872: Starting thread to listen on port 80. Thanks. -- V > > > > Chetan Dattaram Rane | Software Engineer | Persistent Systems > chetan_rane@persistent.co.in | Cell: +91 94033 66714 | Tel: +91 (0832) 30 79014 > Innovation in software product design, development and delivery- www.persistentsys.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: V S Rawat [mailto:vsrawat@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 2:53 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] 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? >