The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /processorder.php.

m34u

I just went through the whole Apache,MySQL, PHP4 installation and now I going through the tutorial and I am completely stuck because my system is notifying me the following:

Method Not Allowed
The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /processorder.php.

I do not know what else to do.

Please help, I am new programming with PHP and I really need to learn this scripting language

Thanks,

dalecosp

Hmm. Usually you see that error when Apache doesn't recognize the file type as a script.

Do you have

  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .html

in httpd.conf? Apache needs to know that files ending with (at least the first 2 of) these extensions need to be parsed with PHP.

Is PHP set up as an Apache module or a CGI binary on this system? If it's not the module, you may need an AddHandler statement in there also, but I'm not sure. Finally, it could be a permissions issue.....

m34u

In the AddType section, this is what I have:

===============

AddType application/x-tar .tgz
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .html
AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml

Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php.exe "

==========================

and for the handler, I have :

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

Can somebody tell me if this is correct?

I really want to learn PHP, but with this problem I cannot continue my lessons

dalecosp

Ooh, I thought of one more thing. Apache sets some directories as being "able to contain executables" (I forget which directive does that) --- check that 'processorder.php' is in such a location. And, you did restart Apache after making any changes to httpd.conf, right?

What about the permissions? Also, have you tried adding a handler for .php (not that it should be necessary, but is it likely to break something? You can always change it back...) Finally, what does Google say?

Food 4 thought, (sorry if you didn't need it 🙁 )