page cannot be displayed

aquaslayer

OK, I've pulled my hair out enough trying to figure this out. I am very new at all of this so please excuse my ignorance. I am running Win NT4 Workstation with Apache 2.0.43 and I have just installed PHP 4.3.0. The Apache monitor shows that php is running and I found a tip online that helped me verify it was running. I had alot of problems with getting rid of permission errors and with internal server errors. Now I believe I am done with those errors, however when I try to run a simple script which will print my php version, I get an error in my browser "page cannot be displayed" I am assuming that php.exe is trying to run my script but my webserver just doesn't seem to allow it to send out the display. Here is my script;

#!/apache/php/php.exe
<?
// Does my host have PHP, and if so, what version?
printf("Your host is running PHP version %s", phpversion());
?>

What seems odd to me is that if I don't have the #! line as the 1st line, apache gives me an internal server error. I see alot of freebie scripts for php that don't have that 1st line, so a part of me questions if I have php set up correctly. NOW, please wake up, I know I've made this long... Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Frank

rpanning

Well, assuming that PHP is installed correctly all you should have to do is create the script. You do not need #!/apache/php/php.exe in the script. Try saving the code below into a file with .php at the end into your htdocs folder and test it, ex: test.php Then test http://localhost/test.php

<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php 
echo "Your host is running PHP version, ".phpversion();
?>
</body>
</html>

aquaslayer

I tried your script and got this error. This is the error I get on any script that doesn't have the #! line in it.

[Sat Jan 11 08:26:09 2003] [error] [client 192.168.1.1] C:/WWW Root/test2/test.php is not executable; ensure interpreted scripts have "#!" first line

[Sat Jan 11 08:26:09 2003] [error] [client 192.168.1.1] (9)Bad file descriptor: don't know how to spawn child process: C:/WWW Root/test2/test.php

I'm running this script on my apache server under the address
http://test2.aquaslayer.com/test.php

I was playing around last night (I'm on EST) and I wondered if my PHP was finding the php.ini file. I've read that it will look for the .ini file in several places. I have it in c:\winnt, could that be my problem? Anyway, let me know what you think.

Thanks
Frank

rpanning

It sounds like PHP isn't set up right in Apache. Make sure that you have these lines somewhere in your httpd.conf for Apache.

LoadModule php4_module C:\php\sapi\php4apache2.dll
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

The LoadModule path should be set to wherever you have installed PHP. Also make sure you have put the php dll's in C:/WINNT/SYSTEM32 and varify that PHP is set installed right. Read their Install.txt

suntra

Well, write what you wrote in your httpd.conf concerning PHP...

Digimatt

WINDOWS...RUN AWAY!!! RUN AWAY!!!

Get on a *nix box and all you troubles will go away.

suntra

Originally posted by Digimatt
WINDOWS...RUN AWAY!!! RUN AWAY!!!

Get on a *nix box and all you troubles will go away.

Please, don't post unuseful replies !! 🙂

I'm on Windows and PHP/Apache/MySQL work perfectly !

coditoergosum

It sounds like you have it setup to run as a cgi executable, and not a module. Both should work, in theory, but running it as a module has lots of advantages over cgi.

The comments from rpanning would only be relevant if it were running as a module.

I personally don't have much experience running it at a cgi, so I'm not exactly sure what your specific problem might be. You DO have to have #!/apache/php/php.exe as the first line when you're using cgi. You can think of it just as a Perl script, except PHP language.

If it were me, I'd just switch over to running it as a module. That's how most people use it... and you'll be able to get more help with it as a result.