Posted by Peter Fox on 10/03/96 11:39

Following on from Denebola's message. . .
>I want to be able to play around with some php scripting on my pc
>without paying a company to host a domain.
>
>I have downloaded php onto my pc, at least I think I have, a folder
>called php has appeared on my C: drive, and I have downloaded and
>installed the Abyss web server and that appears to be working. I also
>have HTML Kit as my html editor.
>
>How do I get simple php scripts to work properly on my pc though? Where
>do I save the files?
>
>I know this may sound so simplistic to some, but I'm getting a real
>headache reading the php manual, frankly I don't understand half of it.


1. Get plain html pages to show (The server will define a root directory
- you need to read those docs - Will take at least half an hour.)
*While doing this the server docs should tell you how to get it to start
and execute the php interpreter when it encounters a .php file request.*

2. Write helloworld.php and put it in same dir as a working html page
<?php print("Hello world"); ?>

3. Put http://localhost/helloworld.php (etc) into your browser and
Bob's your uncle.

The snag is with starred bit in step 1. I've never heard of Abyss - If
you can (and there may be good reasons why you can't) use Apache.

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