[Apple Pro Underwear]

i am setting up the basics of it on my old PC via php.net

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.firstpage.php

i installed fireserv, a thing that installs mysql, php 4 and apache and some cgi stuff too


where the hell am i supposed to save the test files (for instance hello.php as in that tutorial)?

there is a "www" folder where the 404.html, index.htm and phpinfo.htm was and thats where i put it but my test script is not working/processing!!!!! i feel so dumb but i can't troubleshoot things i dont know very well.

[shmerek]

I know for apache it is htdocs, but that probably won't help.

[philzilla]

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
i am setting up the basics of it on my old PC via php.net

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.firstpage.php

i installed fireserv, a thing that installs mysql, php 4 and apache and some cgi stuff too


where the hell am i supposed to save the test files (for instance hello.php as in that tutorial)?

there is a "www" folder where the 404.html, index.htm and phpinfo.htm was and thats where i put it but my test script is not working/processing!!!!! i feel so dumb but i can't troubleshoot things i dont know very well.

wanna define "not working/processing" a little more?

maybe, uninstall what you've done, and install apache from scratch. it's easy enough. then, install php, then install mysql. they're all point/click installers.

if you wanna ask a brother, you know where i be at

[Apple Pro Underwear]

sup philz


if you go to the php.net screen...there is a easy fo-sheezy test script. the infamous "hello world" BS

i copy pasted that into a wordpad documnet and saved it unto .htm file

it's not coming back processed when i load that page. i look up the source and it is coming back unprocessed

[mzllr]

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
i copy pasted that into a wordpad documnet and saved it unto .htm file

it's not coming back processed when i load that page. i look up the source and it is coming back unprocessed

so are you saving it as some_file.htm or as some_file.php?

if not, the extension needs to be .php... that may be why the page isn't processing. the php extension tells the server that it needs to parse the page before sending it to the client.

hope it's as simple as changing the extension for ya...

[philzilla]

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
sup philz


if you go to the php.net screen...there is a easy fo-sheezy test script. the infamous "hello world" BS

i copy pasted that into a wordpad documnet and saved it unto .htm file

it's not coming back processed when i load that page. i look up the source and it is coming back unprocessed

like some dude under there said, save as .php

also, open it in BBE, and turn Invisibles on, as copy/paste from web pages can often include naztay chizaraters

[Apple Pro Underwear]

Originally posted by philzilla:
like some dude under there said, save as .php

also, open it in BBE, and turn Invisibles on, as copy/paste from web pages can often include naztay chizaraters

check and check


it is saved as .php and i indeed checked that it was valid html

i will post screenshots because this is KILLING ME!!!

[Arkham_c]

You're running it on the PC running Windows? I've never done that. In any case, somewhere there ought to be a file called httpd.conf. Find that file and edit it in a text editor. Find the "DocumentRoot" in that file and put your .php documents in the folder indicated by the path specified. Make sure the php module is loaded (both the LoadModule and AddModule directives are in the httpd.conf file). Finally, make sure the .php extension is mapped to those documents in the file with something like this:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

I am assuming you're using PHP4 here.

[Apple Pro Underwear]

Originally posted by Arkham_c:

I am assuming you're using PHP4 here.

indeed i am.

i will give a shot, thx. brb tonight

[Apple Pro Underwear]

argh...after some initial BS...i found the problem.

what was it? i dunno.

it started to work and i'm not gonna ask questions. so wish me luck and thanks you mofos!

[mustafa]

All you have to do is write a file in php and make sure it ends with
.php and you should place this file in www folder. If you want to actualy see the file parsed,(make sure Apache is on) turn on your web browser (IE,Opera,Mozilla,etc) type this in for the url = localhost