Re: installing php on apache

On Sun, 08 Jul 2001 21:11:19 -0400, you wrote: >On Sun, 8 Jul 2001 13:37:12 +0100, you wrote: Sorry about that, I was looking at the wrong line. This was intended for Michael, not David. Alan >David, change your action application line to "/php/php.exe" > >AFAIK, since you aliased /php/ as "c:/php/", your action line gets >translated wrong by apache. In other words, I;m pretty sure that your >"c:/php/php.exe" gets transformed internally to "c:c:/php/php.exe". > >Alan > >>I am trying in vain to get php running. >> >>I have win98 and apache1.3.6 server running. >> >>I unzipped the php-4.0.6-Win32 into c:\php >> >>I then downloaded php406-installer and I ran that, did a standard install. >> >>I was told that the installer hadn't edited my httpd.conf file for apache >>and i would have to do this with accordance with the php\install.txt file. >>Which has the following instructions:- >>If you unzipped the PHP package to C:\PHP\ as desribed >> above, you need to insert these lines to your Apache conf >> file to set up the CGI binary: >> >> ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/" >> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php >> Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php.exe" >> >>So this I did, so my httpd.conf file within apache looks like this:- >># For example, the PHP3 module (not part of the Apache distribution) >># will typically use: >># >>#AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .phtml >>#AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps >>ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/" >> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php >> Action application/x-httpd-php "c:/php/php.exe" >> >>But I shutdown and restart apache and try to run load a .html file in my >>browser >><html> >><head> >><title>Untitled Document</title> >><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; >>charset=iso-8859-1"> >></head> >> >><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> >><?php echo "Hello World<p>"; ?> >></body> >></html> >> >>But nothing happens. >> >>I have tried to be as verbose as possible in the hope that someone can help >>me out here. >> >>Thankyou.