just getting php to work on mac os 10.3.4

sansid3

I have enabled server, and I have changed the config file so the php module would be loaded.
This is the errorlog

[Tue Jun 22 12:01:51 2004] [alert] httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
[Tue Jun 22 12:01:51 2004] [notice] Apache/1.3.29 (Darwin) PHP/4.3.2 mod_perl/1.26 configured -- resuming normal operations

so apache and php seem to work.

but when I make a text index.php file in my Sites directory
with
<?php
echo 'Hello';
?>
it does not work, and if I put an html text .html file with html instruction to print this then php instructions, only the html instruction shows up.

I don't know what to do. I have not modified the .ini file. I just copied the default one.

How do I go about figuring out what is going wrong?

thanks for your help

rachel2004

If you didn't already do so, you may want to just use the packages from here:

http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/welcome.html

The site will steer you in the right direction for setup with OS X 10.3.2 and later. I have successfully used Mark Liyanage's software packages on OS X 10.3.3 and 10.3.4.

sansid3

Thanks for this tip.

But I don't see anything on this website that would help me.

OS X 10.4.3 comes with apache and I have uncommented the appropriate lines for the php module in the config file to activate it.

When I type directly on the unix terminal
php -r 'phpinfo();'
I do get about the same response as listed in Sam's OS X book.
so the php module is installed. I just can't get that command to work from an html file.

And I am able to access html files through my server, so I am putting the file in a Sites folder which is web accessible.

So I wonder what could be wrong that the php code inserted in such an html file does not work!? (in the appropriate <php?...?>) What is left to check? Some file property (if it is an executable or not) a path??? I just get a blank screen

vaaaska

Are you accessing the files on your server using:

http://127.0.0.1/filename.php

sansid3

The Sites folder I am using is in a user Anne so I access

for exemple I will call
http://127.0.0.1/~anne/filename.html

the html section of the code works fine, but nothing happens with the php section of the html file. the <?php does not show suggesting that html knows this is not to be displayed but interpretated.

I am wondering if it could be a text editor problem. maybe that is my problem. I will try using emacs to make a test.php file.

rachel2004

Unless you've specified in httpd.conf that you want to parse HTML files as PHP files, you'll need to name files with PHP code with the .php file extension.

Create a file and put only the following in it:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Save the file and name it as "phpinfo.php". Put it into your Sites folder as you would any other web page. Then try viewing it from a browser.

sansid3

Bingo! it was the editor.

when I made a php file with emacs it ran like a charm, the exact same text with the exact same folder with the default text editor gives a blank screen.

Ach. Well, hopefully others will find this info in this forum and know what to do! beware of the text editor.