can't get php to work properly on XP

akrapovic

First, I have ran Win2000 with Apache 1.3.22 and PHP 4.1.0 with before upgrade to XP Pro with no problem.

I upgrade to Win XP Pro couple months ago and could NOT get PHP to run properly.

When install php with Apache 1.3.22. I got stuck in a loop when trying to retrieve anything above 100 records.
When using Apache 2.0.4 and php 4.2.3, I also stuck in a loop like above but with the added bonus of the table format are all mess up and the UTF8 encoding isn't working smoothly either. Sometime it appear, sometime it won't. I set the default encoding in the conf file to UTF8.

Today, I install IIS 5. And still can't get it php to work smoothly either. The page load fine, but the status bar keep saying "opening page...." like it was trying to finish open something. If I hit STOP on the browser, then it quit doing that. So its kinda annoying, but everything show up properly.

btw, I did follow the installation direction properly.

I have not apply the update SP1 for XP yet, I wonder if this is the cause of all the problems. Just wanna if you guys out there running XP Pro with php, if you do anything "special" to make it run correctly.

thanks

piersk

Sounds like its a problem with your code to me. I have no probs at all with XP. Or you could try upgrading to Apache 2 (see my announcement for details)

akrapovic

thanks for reply

I forgot to tell you that I also have a website. Which ran the same code as the one I am trying to get to work currently with XP localhost. And everything work perfectly on my online site just like it was when my comp was using Win2000 Pro.

http://www.duongdemui.com

So I have no problem with anything my site. Just that I can't get them to work properly like before with my current XP os localhost.

Update

I found a way to get it to work now, I have to run php as cgi. Unlike before I ran php as module perfectly on Win2000Pro.
So that's my solution. Must run php as cgi on XP Pro or I'll get all the strange error stuff.