On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 22:24 +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 19:04 +0100, e-letter wrote: > > On 19/08/2010, HallMarc Websites <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I agree with the earlier take on this situation; you need to start at the > > > beginning and learn the basics regarding the technologies BEFORE you try and > > > manage them. You're trying to drive a car when you don't even know what or > > > car is and how to operate one so you keep crashing. > > > > > > Here are some great sites to check out: > > > http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/ > > > http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1868 > > > http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/MySQL_vs_PostgreSQL > > > http://www.w3schools.com/ > > > There are some great books out there as well to help you learn and I > > > recommend getting the reference guides as well. Since the gist of this > > > thread seems to be focused on the LAPP set-up and mainly an Apache (?) > > > configuration issue you might try the forums and mailing lists found there > > > as well. > > > > > No response from apache forum. Looking at the web browser output from > > the processing of the php file, the partial success of processing the > > file suggests that the problem is with php; if it was due to apache, > > html code would be affected as well? > > > > No, because Apache doesn't need to process HTML in the same way it > needs to process PHP. The tag <?php in your code is being sent down to > your browser as HTML (view the source on the page you're browsing to) > and interpreted as a tag by your browser, hence what appears to be > partially processed output. > > It's fairly clear by now that Apache does not know about your PHP > install (if there even is one) This is my suspicion also. > > I've just set up and installed PHP and Apache on my Mandriva box since > I've been at home, and it took all of 5 minutes What was the name of the PHP package you installed? I E-Mailed him offline and had him run the command rpm -q php5 to try and figure out if php was installed and he replied with this: <quote> > No package by this name in the repository; have libphp5_common5 > installed. </quote> Well I don't know what the name of the php5 in mandrake, so I can't tell whether he's actually got php installed at all. -- Blessings, David M. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
