Re: note 9568 added to Installation on Windows 95/98/NT systems

gordon_gekko@php2.chek.com, at@php2.chek.com, nospam@php2.chek.com, mail@php2.chek.com, dot@php2.chek.com, com@php2.chek.com writes: > Unbelievable install madness! The documentation is really > inaccurate. Thanks for other posters, your comments really helped. > > My apache+php4+mysql is finally running ok when I changed the name > of php.ini file to php3.ini (though this is php4... I don't > understand, neither do I care anymore, now everything is running ok) > > Patience, my friends. > > http://www.php.net/manual/install-windows95-nt.php Thanks for the note, but it's been deleted. This isn't information which can be included into the manual, which is what the Manual Notes system is for. Please make sure the read the instructions on the page where you submitted this note before adding another. To call the INSTALL file 'really inaccurate' without giving any information as to what, exactly, wasn't really accurate doesn't really help us find and fix the problem, now does it? The main reason this isn't useful is that it doesn't offer an information beyond "it didn't work for me"...except for the offering that you had to change 'php.ini' to 'php3.ini', which is decidedly odd, seeing as none of the source code of PHP 4 even contains that string. It might have an effect if your php.ini was somehow corrupt and hosing your server on loading, since changing the name to php3.ini would cause it not to be found at all, thereby obviating the problem. Do you have any straces or error messages? Could you send some information as you the versions of PHP, MySQL, Apache, and your OS (and what OS you are using)? All of this is useful in tracking down problems. If you want to make a bug report, you should go to http://bugs.php.net. If you care to enumerate the steps you had to take to get things working, *that* would be useful to have in the manual notes. Personally, I would have originally suggested asking for help on the mailing list at php-general@lists.php.net. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+