Quick Installation Question

furious5

I have set up MySQL, PHP and Apache on a windows machine.

My problem is that when I try to run a PHP script it returns the full code on screen rather than executing the code. I guess this is a setting in php.ini that needs changing?

Its been a while since I installed php on a windows machine and can remember changing a setting but can't remember which one.

Any ideas folks?

bad76

Hi,
you refer page as "c://server/root/mypage.php"
or some like this "http://localhost/mypage.php" ?

furious5

I am calling the page using: http://localhost/test.php

bad76

😕
may be the php is not running.

You have to put in window/system the dlls you found in php (sub)directory.

[EDIT]

you must be sure to shutdown and restart apache every time...(look in the process list)

tsinka

Hi,

there are many reasons why the source code is displayed. Here is a short list of what you might need to check:

1) put php.ini to your windows/winnt folder
2) make sure that engine=On is set in php.ini
3) copy php4ts.dll to your system/system32 folder
4) copy all dll's in the dlls folder to your system/system32 folder
5) Make sure that the following lines exist in your httpd.conf

when php is installed in c:/php (zip package, not the installer. If you used the installer then I'd suggest to uninstall it and uncompress the zip package to e.g. c:/php)

Apache 1.3.x:
LoadModule c:/php/sapi/php4apache.dll
AddModule mod_php4.c

Apache 2.x:
LoadModule c:/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll

Apache 1.3.x and Apache 2.x:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

Hope this helps you a little bit 🙂

furious5

The problem was with PHP not being installed properly.

Thanks for taking the time to answer my question.