hi.... to begin, you should check out the php/apache web sites... located at apache.org and php.net, each site provides a great deal of information on how to setup/configure and run the apache server, and allow php apps to run on the server... to setup php... you simply need to install php, and make any mods to the php.ini file. you should read through the php.ini file to get a feel for what the attributes are, what they do, and how they are used... initially, you can pretty much leave it in the default state... this will get php installed on your system. you can read through the php/net site to see how to write/run quick test apps that can be executed from the command liine if you want to test php as a standalone environment... apache... assuming that you already have apache up/running, to make it accept/serve php pages requires that the httpd.conf config file be modified. essentially this requires allowing the apache server to know that certain pages are to be served up using the php interpreter. here again, check out the apache/php sites to see exactly what the changes are that have to be made to the config file. as i recall, it's a few lines of modes, and they're well documented on the sites, or you can also search google... to check out that everything works once youve made your changes, you'll need to restart the apache server. create a short php app and have it reside in a directory/folder that you've created as an apache site (in the httpd.conf file) run the app and see if it's correctly interpreting the php commands, or is it still serving the commands as text... test php file <?php phpinfo(); ?php> this should display information regarding your server/setup.. if you see the information, you've got php running on apache... -bruce -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-php-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-php-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rinku Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 2:20 AM To: pgsql-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PHP] How to run PHP on WinXP ? Dear All, Wd you pls guide me on how to run PHP on Apache server ? I am using WindowsXP as OS, PHP4.3.3 and Apache 2.0.47. Regards, Rinku Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!
