Re: Installation issue

Also, since you made changes to the httpd.conf file, run a apache -t or a httpd -t, depending upon the apache version, from the command line. It will show you syntax errors, for example, if it can't find one of the php files you added a statement for in the httpd.conf file. It will even give you the line number. If those are hte results you are getting for trying to browser, through your server, for a php file Apache doesn't know what a php file is. "Miles Thompson" <milesthom@gmail.com> on Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 11:20 AM wrote: >Tommy Peterson's instructions look right. (Although I've never >installed on a Windows box.) > >When you "stopped" Apache, did you check to see if an older >instance was running. That often catches the experts. > >Did you do a check on Apache's configuration? (Usually apache2ctl -check) > >Is Apache running as a service? > >Does Apache render HTML? > >Create this file, phpinfo.php, and put it in your docroot (webroot, >however you think of it): > ><?php > phpinfo(); >?> > >Then this URL: [ http://localhost/phpinfo.php >]http://localhost/phpinfo.php should tell you about your PHP and >Apache >configuration, IF correctly installed and configured. > >It's not generally recommended to parse HTML files a PHP files because >the interpreter has to look at every line, not just the sequences set >apart by PHP's open and close tags. > >Apart from that I can't be much help. The other alternative is to grab >one of the WAMP packages which does a complete install of MySQL, Apache >and PHP. > >Good luck with this - Miles > >On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Jerry Adair <[ >mailto:fivetomins@yahoo.com ]fivetomins@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > >Hi Tommy/Keith/Newsgroup, > >Thank you for the input, I REALLY appreciate it. I did everything you >said but it still does not work. A few observations: > >1) Yes I am running on Windows XP. So it seems that I shouldn't do any >of the "*.so" stuff that Keith mentioned, that seems like a >UNIX thing. If I can just get the thing to work, I will split my PHP >definitions off into another file just as Keith recommends. However for >now I just want it to work. > >2) What exactly am I supposed to rename in the php directory? Your email >just said "rename the PHP file" ... the documentation says to >rename either the php.ini-recommended or php.ini-dist as php.ini. So I >renamed the php.ini-recommended to php.ini in my PHP directory, which I >installed in C:\php. > >3) Here are the changes I made to conf\httpd.conf: >#JRA added this >#Preload the PHP interpreter so that Apache can find it >#even if it's not in the path >LoadFile "C:\php\php5ts.dll" >LoadModule php5_module "C:\php\php5apache2_2.dll" >PHPIniDir "C:\php" > > >AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php >AddHandler application/x-httpd-php-source .phps > > >The problem with this is that I cannot find the "application" >directory ANYWHERE. I downloaded what I thought was/is the latest >version of Apache from a mirror site, but there is no application >directory. Nothing in the instructions mentions such a directory, that I >read anyway. Do I just need to create it manually? Confusing. I tried >these definitions with both forward and backward slashes, and it made no >difference. > >4) I did not copy the php.ini file anywhere. > >5) I did add "C:\php" to the PATH environment variable. Is >that really a problem? > >6) I have issued many "bin\httpd.exe -k [start|stop]" commands >recently, nothing has changed. > >7) Below is what I get when typing [ http://localhost/ >]http://localhost >into a browser window: ><html><body> ><h1>It works!</h1> ><?php >echo "PHP test\n"; >?> ></body></html> > >Note that I modified the file a bit just to see if I could get the php >echo text to appear in the browser in addition to the It works! text... > >8) Is there an installation issue at work here? Do I need to install PHP >only AFTER installing Apache? > >Thanks for any help. I am LOST! > >Jerry > > > >""Tommy Peterson"" <[ >mailto:tpeterson@americaschoice.org >]tpeterson@americaschoice.org> >wrote in message [ >news:fc.000f464b0190e53e3b9aca004d68f73f.190e548@ncee.org >]news:fc.000f464b0190e53e3b9aca004d68f73f.190e548@ncee.org... >Keith, >If you can't get this working, and you are using a Windows, not >Linux/Unix machine, do the following (the online doc are not complete or >detailed enough I have found): > >1) Rename the PHP file in your PHP directory to PHP.ini (add the .ini >extension to it). >2) In your Apache httpd.conf file (localed in the apache's conf directory >do the following > >Here is the proper apache directives to load php, preferbly saved as >php.conf and included from your main config. > >#load the php main library to avoid dll hell >Loadfile "C:\pathtophp\php5ts.dll" > >#load the sapi so that apache can use php >LoadModule php5_module "C:\pathtophp\php5apache2_2.dll" > >#set the php.ini location so that you don't have to waste time guessing >where it is >PHPIniDir "C:\pathtophp" > >#Hook the php file extensions, notice that Addtype is NOT USED, since >that's just stupid >AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php >AddHandler application/x-httpd-php-source .phps > >3) >Do not copy any php files anywhere >Do not edit the system path. If you have deleted them. > >4) Delete any additions from you httpd.conf and php.ini that you have >made to try to get it to work. > >5) restart your apache server. It should work. > > > >