Re: Problem Running PHP on WinXP

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 04:32, Chris Montgomery wrote: > Howdy Chris, > > Sunday, August 8, 2004, 7:18:03 AM, Chris Hewitt wrote: > > > You do not tell us what error you had? If it was that the web page could > > not be found, then it is probably that you have put your test.php in > > your Apache installation directory rather than in the directory > > specified by DocumentRoot in you httpd.conf file. > > You are correct, I did forget to say what the error was. You guessed > correctly, it was a Not Found error. I checked my httpd.conf file and > discovered I had the DocumentRoot set, but it was incorrect. A slight > change and my test.php came up like a charm. > > One related question: can the DocumentRoot be anywhere (any > drive/folder), or does it have to be under the Apache folder? Yes, basically anywhere as long as the webserver has permissions on it (caveat is that I don't use PHP under MS Windows so I can't actually test this). On my system the httpd root is /etc/httpd but the document root is /var/www/html. HTH Chris