Can't yet display a simple PHP-style HTML file

Nov 7, 1999 Hello everbody, Here is a simple question from a new user of PHP: I can't get a simple HTML + PHP page to show the PHP portion. Here is the complete HTML code: ------------------- <html> <body> <?php $myvar = "Hello Earth\n"; echo $myvar; ?> </body> </html> ------------------- When I display it, the page is completely blank, instead of showing the expected "Hello Earth" text. Certainly I confirmed that non-PHP text gets displayed fine. As I said, I'm just beginning, having just installed PHP for the first time (PHP4.0-b2) on a Sun Solaris 2.6 machine, with the NS Enterprise 4.0 web server. As you may know, php runs as a cgi pgm, not a module, when used with the NS web server. The only little test that has worked for me is running the above file, call it 'test.php' with the command-line php program, thusly: php -f test.php. That successfully shows the final HTML code. This makes me believe that my php executable at least works. I tried to follow various overlapping instructions for configuring the NS Enterprise web server to redirect php tags to the php program for preprocessing. And yes, I did restart the NS web server after diddling with the /config files. --------------- The things I did to try to get the web server to redirect php tags were: compile 'redirect-cgi.c' with the included Makefile, putting the resulting 'redirect_cgi.so' file in directory '/opt/php'. Changed before compiling: in file cgi_main.c (not main.c, as suggested in the PHP website tips) line: if (!getenv("REDIRECT_STATUS")) { to line: if (!getenv("HTTP_REDIRECT_STATUS")) { in my non-admin webserver directory's 'config' subdir, I made the following changes to the following files: magnus.conf: added following line to the end: Init fn=load-modules shlib=/opt/php/redirect_cgi.so funcs=redirect-cgi obj.conf: immediately after line: ObjectType fn=type-by-extension I added line: ObjectType fn="redirect-cgi" cgi_path="/opt/php/bin/php" type="magnus-internal/php" mime.conf: Added following line to end of file: type=magnus-internal/php exts=php,phtml ------------- I changed nothing in the (renamed) php.ini, except move it to directory /opt/php, where I had 'configured' it to be located. Or is this 'php.ini' file supposed to be doctored up by hand? By the way, I ran 'configure' as follows: ./configure --enable-discard-path --with-gd=no --with-gettext=no --with-oracle=/usr/oracle --enable-short-tags=no --bindir=/opt/php/bin --with-config-file-path=/opt/php --enable-bcmath --enable-force-cgi-redirect=yes --enable-discard-path=yes ----------------------- I guess this is a lot to slosh through. My main hope would be that someone out there would know perhaps what the most common cause of my problem might be and clue me in.