Posted by Jim Carlock on 10/01/49 11:36

"Jameson" <jameson_ray@comcast.net> wrote:
> Thanks a million for all of the help. I think my PHP installation
> isn't set up right, because it seems like anything that I try do
> do with images doesn't work very well.

Hi Ray,

If you're as curious about how things work on a Windows NT
system as I am about how they work on a Mac, perhaps we
could continue and see if we come up with something.

For instance, are you doing all this on a MacIntosh system? I
see your posting to the newsgroup using a MacIntosh. That's
where my questions must start.

X-HTTP-UserAgent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en)
AppleWebKit/416.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/416.13,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)

Apache gets installed as a "Service" on any NT system. How do
you start and stop a web-server on the Mac?

Here we either click on Start, Run then type in services.msc, or
we open a command prompt and type services.msc, or we open
a command prompt and use the following commands to start and
stop the service...

net stop Apache
net start Apache

The services.msc provides the GUI interface and opens a window
whereby you can right click on each listed service, then select "Stop"
or "Start" or get into the service "Properties" to set the Autostart
stuff.

The PHP stuff loads when Apache starts. That's the only way
it gets loaded. The executable, php.exe, isn't even in the PATH
environment variable. So the PHP install folder holds some files
but everything to load gets identified in the PHP.INI file. I forgot
to mention something about the "extension_dir" line found in
PHP.INI:

extension_dir = "C:/WINDOWS/system32/"

This line positively identifies the location of the folder which
holds the extension files. Shortcuts to .dll files do not work on
a Windows system, so the actual .dll must reside in the folder
specified. Also, the path must be specified using the forward
slash, even though Windows itself uses backwards-slashes to
denote a path to a file.

So I ended up using the "net stop Apache" and "net start Apache"
to test things. The "net start ..." and "net stop ..." commands are
extremily useful on any Windows NT system (NT, 2000, XP,
2003).

So my next question is, do you employ a PHP.INI file on a Mac?

You are trying to get this to work on a Mac, right? If you're
unsure of how to answer any of the questions, let me know.
I'm really ignorant when it comes to MacIntosh systems, and
I might be able to ask some easy to answer questions if your
willing to answer some questions. I'm certainly eager to get
answers and explore this, even though no Mac sits in front of
me. :-)

Jim Carlock
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