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Posted by ishtar on 09/17/05 20:32
Rincewind wrote:
> On 17 Sep 2005 05:11:14 -0700, jpwood@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Rincewind wrote:
> >> On 16 Sep 2005 20:48:30 -0700, ishtar wrote:
> >>
> >>> All I want to do is setup my web server at home to use blog software. I
> >>> downloaded a freeware program from sourceforge.net called simpleblog.
> >>> All it says I need to do is install PHP which seems simple enough. I
> >>> goto PHP's web site and install PHP but none of the file associations
> >>> on my computer see PHP files as anything? The first step of using
> >>> simpleblog is to simply double-click on index.php but even if I
> >>> associate PHP's executable to the PHP extension it simply pops up a
> >>> quick DOS window and then disappears and nothing happens.
> >>>
> >>> I would have simply thought if I installed PHP on my PC I could run PHP
> >>> files. Admittedly I am a newbie at this so any help is appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>
> >> RTFM http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.general.php
> >> <Quote> For the first and most common form, you need three things: PHP
> >> itself, a web server and a web browser</Quote> Notice which one of the
> >> three things your missing?
> >
> > I already have all 3 and thus why I am confused:
> >
> > 1. PHP was installed from php.net following their exact instructions.
> > 2. The web server I am using is Abyss by Aprelium and followed the
> > exact instructions to have it work with PHP...found here:
> >
> > http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/php.html
> >
> > 3. I am using Windows XP Pro and obviously it comes with IE 6.0
> >
> > Again, all I want to do is run an index.php file but all I see right
> > now is either a quick dos window flash or if I hit my web server by
> > going to http://localhost I see the script inside index.php itself.
>
> save the following as a .php file then run it from you www folder:
>
> <?php
> phpinfo()
> ?>
>
> if you get only the code returned then you have not installed PHP correctly
> to your server, if you get a long list of PHP info then it works. But it
> sound as though you may have missed something in the install procedure.
Thanks so much for the response. I must have installed it wrong but it
seemed pretty straight-forward and I also tried using an all in one
install like apachetriad which supposedly installs everything without
hardly any user input.
My only question is this. If PHP is installed correctly on my PC
shouldn't I simply be able to click on index.php and have internet
explorer open it and run it like a regular web page and not just
display script?
Thanks again.
Ishtar
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