Bob Paul Bob-at-madison-atlantic.com |nyphp dev/internal group use| wrote:
Hello,
I am totally new to PHP and NYPHP. I've been trying for several days
now to install PHP, Apache and MySQL on my Win/XP system.
The Apache web server is functioning but I'm lost in the PHP
configuration files and have not a clue how to activate PHP. The
Apache web server totally ignores the PHP script inside my little
HelloWorld.php -
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello World from HTML</p>
<?php echo '<p>Hello World from PHP</p>'; ?>
</body>
</html>
I'm about to start searching through the NYPHP message archives, but
if you happen to know a link that will help me, I'd greatly appreciate
hearing about it.
All the best,
Bob
If you go the prepackaged LAMP route, there is also EasyPHP, XAMPP, and
WAMP for windows. All good installers, none good for a public machine
(security reasons).
Since your test file is HTML with embedded PHP, I assume it is named
something.html or something.htm? In that case Apache will not pass it to
the PHP engine by default. Check by looking at the source of the output
page.. if you see the embedded PHP code that's what happened.
Rename it something.php and try again.
If you want to pass your .html files through PHP (some people do), you
need to modify Apache's httpd.conf or use an htaccess file to add the
.html extension as a PHP application file type. For .php and .html the
line looks like this:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html
For edumacational purposes, the best test file might be one like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP test Fle</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is HTML, and what follows is my php configuration:</h1>
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
</body>
</html>
-=john andrews
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