Re: Re: Parsing a PHP file - Newbie alert

Andrew Hargreaves wrote:

Andrew Hargreaves wrote:

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:20:52 -0500, Jason Barnett <jason.barnett@telesuite.com> wrote:

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Absolutely! It's a common mistake. If you try to open a PHP file directly then your browser would have no idea to send the script through PHP. But when you browse to that webpage on your local machine (http://localhost/index.php) Apache should do all of that work for you. Assuming of course that Apache is set up properly; if it's not, then tell us what happened when you tried going to this webpage.

Ok, some progress has been made but not in a good way.By browsing to http://localhost/index.php, I receive the message "The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost", same for 127.0.0.1/index.php so I think I need to look at the DNS settings now. I'll let you know how I get on. Andrew

If you're attempting to view a page from the localhost then you shouldn't need to muck around with DNS unless you installed Apache and then changed the DNS already. By default Apache *should* work for localhost and it will listen on port 80 / 8080. At this point it is safe to say you have a server (Apache) problem. Make sure the server is running and it is listening on port 80 / 8080. A "connection was refused" error indicates that the server didn't respond at all! Try google / Apache manual pages for this error message if you need more help. -- Teach a man to fish... NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2 STFM | http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php LAZY | http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHP&submitform=Find+search+plugins

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