Installing PHP 4.3.1 and Apache 1.3.27 on Windows 98

[valensnow]

Dear Folks:

I am having a difficult time installing PHP 4.3.1 and Apache 1.3.27 on my Windows 98 machine. I have followed numerous tutorials (all unique) on the web, but no luck yet. After I complete the installation and start up Apache it shows that PHP 4.3.1 is running, but every time I create the following file:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Apache justs spits it back as plain text in my browser. It seems it just refuses to recognize the .php extension, and this just puzzles me. No matter how many times I save it as test.php, it just interprets it as test.php.txt. The AddType directive is there too, so that isn't why it doesn't recognize .php. I am placing the file in the proper directory and PHP 4.3.1 is up and running along with Apache 1.3.27. Everything is there, but... I am troubled by this. I have wasted several days on this now, and cannot bother with it for a while. Eventually I will come back to it. Currently I have PWS running ASP, may be this web server has something to do with the failure to read .php files, but I am pretty sure that is not what is causing the problem. There is something either misconfigured somewhere on my OS, or an extra line or two is need in the configuration of apache. Any help will be appreciated.

Thank You,

Valen

[Mordecai]

Try using something like PHPTriad/Sokkit or BadBlue.

[tsinka]

Hi,

how does your AddType directive look like ? Did you also include the module with LoadModule and maybe AddModule (I think so since it shows that PHP 4.3.1 is running) ? Please post the parts of your httpd.conf where the module is loaded and where you define the type.

Thomas

[skiprat]

It appears that your text editor is adding the .txt extension to the file name when you save it
No matter how many times I save it as test.php, it just interprets it as test.php.txt.
Just try renaming the file to test.php to verify this.
Also if you want a good text editor then download notetab from
www.notetab.com