Posted by rfhurley on 02/09/07 05:24

On Feb 8, 8:43 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> rfhurley wrote:
> > On Feb 8, 7:42 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> >> rfhurley wrote:
> >>> On Feb 6, 11:50 pm, Siegfreed <s...@freed.org> wrote:
> >>>> rfhurley wrote:
> >>>>> How do I run a .php program? (I'm starting with the "hello world"
> >>>>> script)
> >>>> You need to specify the document root (the directory that Apache will
> >>>> look for files when asked to serve them) in your "httpd" configuration
> >>>> file, which in turn is located in the "Conf" directory. The section
> >>>> that control the "DocumentRoot" look like this:-
> >>>> # DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
> >>>> # documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
> >>>> # symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
> >>>> # Example:-
> >>>> DocumentRoot "C:/my_chosen_php_directory"
> >>>> Once you set up your "DocumentRoot", place the files you want to run in
> >>>> there, and type:
> >>>>http://localhost/your_file_name.phpintoaweb browser; orhttp://127.0.0.1/your_file_name.phpintoaweb browser.
> >>> OK, I went to the "httpd.conf" file, and added this:
> >>> # For PHP 5 do something like this:
> >>> LoadModule php5_module "C:\Program Files\PHP\php5apache2_2_4.dll"
> >>> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
> >>> # configure the path to php.ini
> >>> PHPIniDir "C:\Program Files\PHP"
> >>> and then ran the "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" script. It ran (correctly) in
> >>> my browser, but then an error message came up, shutting down apache. I
> >>> turned apache back on; the same thing happened again-- but this time,
> >>> when I tried to turn it back on, an error message came up, telling me
> >>> the operation couldn't be performed (wouldn't run apache). I restarted
> >>> my computer; Apache wouldn't start again (same error message).
> >>> I removed the added lines from the "httpd.conf" file, and restarted
> >>> everything. Everything ran fine; but when I re-added the "LoadModule
> >>> php5_module..." code, it wouldn't start apache. What's going on? And
> >>> what do I do now?
> >> What error message do you get?
>
> >> --
> >> ==================
> >> Remove the "x" from my email address
> >> Jerry Stuckle
> >> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> >> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> >> ==================
>
> > Not much to report. At this point Apache won't even start if I change
> > "httpd.conf" to add the "LoadModule_php5" code. Before, I had to plow
> > through a couple of levels of error message to even get to an
> > indecipherable explanation.
> > I try again, though, and see if I can get something.
>
> You said you got an error message before. Do you remember what it was?
>
> What do you get if you do a syntax check the Apache configuration file?
> Use the -t parameter to the startup command.
>
> And what's in your Apache error log?
>
> --
> ==================
> Remove the "x" from my email address
> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> ==================

I sent an email to your email address to enquire whether I could send
you some files to look at. Also, how do you use the -t parameter on
Windows? (it looks like a UNIX flag, which I'm not really fluent with
either...)

R

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