Re: Installation issue

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Also, since you made changes to the httpd.conf file, run a apache -t or a httpd -t, depending upon the apache version, from the command line. It will show you syntax errors, for example, if it can't find one of the php files you added a statement for in the httpd.conf file. It will even give you the line number.


If those are hte results you are getting for trying to browser, through your server, for a php file Apache doesn't know what a php file is.


"Miles Thompson" <milesthom@xxxxxxxxx> on Sunday, July 6,
2008 at 11:20 AM  wrote:


>Tommy Peterson's instructions look right. (Although I've never
>installed on a Windows box.)
>
>When you "stopped" Apache, did you check to see if an older
>instance was running. That often catches the experts.
>
>Did you do a check on Apache's configuration? (Usually apache2ctl -check)
>
>Is Apache running as a service?
>
>Does Apache render HTML?
>
>Create this file, phpinfo.php, and put it in your docroot (webroot,
>however you think of it):
>
><?php
>   phpinfo();
>?>
>
>Then this URL: [ http://localhost/phpinfo.php
>]http://localhost/phpinfo.php should tell you about your PHP and Apache
>configuration, IF correctly installed and configured.
>
>It's not generally recommended to parse HTML files a PHP files because
>the interpreter has to look at every line, not just the sequences set
>apart by PHP's open and close  tags.
>
>Apart from that I can't be much help. The other alternative is to grab
>one of the WAMP packages which does a complete install of MySQL, Apache
>and PHP.
>
>Good luck with this - Miles
>
>On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Jerry Adair <[
>mailto:fivetomins@xxxxxxxxx ]fivetomins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Hi Tommy/Keith/Newsgroup,
>
>Thank you for the input, I REALLY appreciate it.  I did everything you
>said but it still does not work.  A few observations:
>
>1) Yes I am running on Windows XP.  So it seems that I shouldn't do any
>of the "*.so" stuff that Keith mentioned, that seems like a
>UNIX thing.  If I can just get the thing to work, I will split my PHP
>definitions off into another file just as Keith recommends.  However for
>now I just want it to work.
>
>2) What exactly am I supposed to rename in the php directory?  Your email
>just said "rename the PHP file" ... the documentation says to
>rename either the php.ini-recommended or php.ini-dist as php.ini.  So I
>renamed the php.ini-recommended to php.ini in my PHP directory, which I
>installed in C:\php.
>
>3) Here are the changes I made to conf\httpd.conf:
>#JRA added this
>#Preload the PHP interpreter so that Apache can find it
>#even if it's not in the path
>LoadFile "C:\php\php5ts.dll"
>LoadModule php5_module "C:\php\php5apache2_2.dll"
>PHPIniDir "C:\php"
>
>
>AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
>AddHandler application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
>
>
>The problem with this is that I cannot find the "application"
>directory ANYWHERE.  I downloaded what I thought was/is the latest
>version of Apache from a mirror site, but there is no application
>directory.  Nothing in the instructions mentions such a directory, that I
>read anyway.  Do I just need to create it manually?  Confusing.  I tried
>these definitions with both forward and backward slashes, and it made no
>difference.
>
>4) I did not copy the php.ini file anywhere.
>
>5) I did add "C:\php" to the PATH environment variable.  Is
>that really a problem?
>
>6) I have issued many "bin\httpd.exe -k [start|stop]" commands
>recently, nothing has changed.
>
>7) Below is what I get when typing [ http://localhost/ ]http://localhost
>into a browser window:
><html><body>
><h1>It works!</h1>
><?php
>echo "PHP test\n";
>?>
></body></html>
>
>Note that I modified the file a bit just to see if I could get the php
>echo text to appear in the browser in addition to the It works! text...
>
>8) Is there an installation issue at work here?  Do I need to install PHP
>only AFTER installing Apache?
>
>Thanks for any help.  I am LOST!
>
>Jerry
>
>
>
>""Tommy Peterson"" <[
>mailto:tpeterson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ]tpeterson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote in message [
>news:fc.000f464b0190e53e3b9aca004d68f73f.190e548@xxxxxxxx
>]news:fc.000f464b0190e53e3b9aca004d68f73f.190e548@xxxxxxxx...
>Keith,
>If you can't get this working, and you are using a Windows, not
>Linux/Unix machine, do the following (the online doc are not complete or
>detailed enough I have found):
>
>1) Rename the PHP file in your PHP directory to PHP.ini (add the .ini
>extension to it).
>2) In your Apache httpd.conf file (localed in the apache's conf directory
>do the following
>
>Here is the proper apache directives to load php, preferbly saved as
>php.conf and included from your main config.
>
>#load the php main library to avoid dll hell
>Loadfile "C:\pathtophp\php5ts.dll"
>
>#load the sapi so that apache can use php
>LoadModule php5_module "C:\pathtophp\php5apache2_2.dll"
>
>#set the php.ini location so that you don't have to waste time guessing
>where it is
>PHPIniDir "C:\pathtophp"
>
>#Hook the php file extensions, notice that Addtype is NOT USED, since
>that's just stupid
>AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
>AddHandler application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
>
>3)
>Do not copy any php files anywhere
>Do not edit the system path. If you have deleted them.
>
>4) Delete any additions from you httpd.conf and php.ini that you have
>made to try to get it to work.
>
>5) restart your apache server. It should work.
>
>
>
>


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