Check your eclipse settings - Google App Engine may be enabled. GAE doesn't allow you to use databases (or open network connections).
--Sri On 8 April 2010 02:39, BillGordon <bfd...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I followed the tutorial to create the JSON PHP variant of the > Stockwatcher application. I quickly discovered that this won't work in > Hosted mode unless web.xml is modified what was to me a non-obvious > way. This information is missing from the tutorial and could be > usefully added to prevent others from having to re-invent the wheel. > > With an unmodified web.xml, the built-in Jetty simply returns the text > of a requested .php file, rather than executing the .php file and > returning the output. (My Google searches showed that others had > encountered this problem, but no-one has bothered posting a solution > far as I could see.) > > The solution is to modify web.xml along the lines of > > <!-- Servlets --> > <servlet> > <servlet-name>PHP</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>org.mortbay.servlet.CGI</servlet-class> > <init-param> > <param-name>commandPrefix</param-name> > <param-value>"H:\Program Files\PHP\php-cgi.exe"</param-value> > </init-param> > <!-- Path, other ENV_variables including ENV_SystemRoot, > ENV_REDIRECT_STATUS on Windows --> > </servlet> > > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>PHP</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>*.php</url-pattern> > <!-- Any other URL patterns that are needed by your app to be > processed by PHP --> > </servlet-mapping> > > but pointing to your particular PHP installation, of course. > > This works as expected. However, I became ambitious, and extended the > project to use a .php script that uses MySQL. This unfortunately fails > - PHP is unable to open a socket to the MySQL server. The same script > works perfectly when called from the command line, or loaded through > IIS. It appears that the environment in which Jetty runs the script > restricts PHP's ability to use the TCP/IP stack. Now, does anyone have > a solution for this? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
