Re: installing php on apache

Thanks, > Second, rename any files that have php in them to .php files, and I already name my PHP files .php > instruct Apache to look for index.php files (I forget where this is... I > believe it's towards the bottom of the default httpd.conf file) I can't seem to find this part of the document the only mention of PHP in my file is like this: # For example, the PHP3 module (not part of the Apache distribution) # will typically use: # #AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .phtml #AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/" AddType application/x-httpd-php .php Action application/x-httpd-php c:/php/php.exe Does this mean that there is another problem that is stopping me running php? "Ben Bleything" <bleythbe@mailbox.orst.edu> wrote in message news:001b01c107cb$73e445e0$0201a8c0@c1141975c... > The key here is this line: > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php > > What this means, to apache, is that it will only send to the php binary > files that end in .php. Two options: first, if you are going to have > php in almost all files, you can just add .html to this line after .php. > > Second, rename any files that have php in them to .php files, and > instruct Apache to look for index.php files (I forget where this is... I > believe it's towards the bottom of the default httpd.conf file) > > Another thing that I noticed when I was trying to install php and apache > in windows was that it is very easy to put in both sets of > descriptions... the one for the module and the one for the binary, so > just be sure you didn't do that => > > Ben > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Duxbury [mailto:M.R.Duxbury@btinternet.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 5:37 AM > To: php-windows@lists.php.net; php-install@lists.php.net; > php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] installing php on apache > > I am trying in vain to get php running. > > I have win98 and apache1.3.6 server running. > > I unzipped the php-4.0.6-Win32 into c:\php > > I then downloaded php406-installer and I ran that, did a standard > install. > > I was told that the installer hadn't edited my httpd.conf file for > apache > and i would have to do this with accordance with the php\install.txt > file. > Which has the following instructions:- > If you unzipped the PHP package to C:\PHP\ as desribed > above, you need to insert these lines to your Apache conf > file to set up the CGI binary: > > ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/" > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php > Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php.exe" > > So this I did, so my httpd.conf file within apache looks like this:- > # For example, the PHP3 module (not part of the Apache distribution) > # will typically use: > # > #AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .phtml > #AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps > ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/" > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php > Action application/x-httpd-php "c:/php/php.exe" > > But I shutdown and restart apache and try to run load a .html file in my > browser > <html> > <head> > <title>Untitled Document</title> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1"> > </head> > > <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> > <?php echo "Hello World<p>"; ?> > </body> > </html> > > But nothing happens. > > I have tried to be as verbose as possible in the hope that someone can > help > me out here. > > Thankyou. > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >