php install problem

paulz49

Hello
I'm a total newbie to php and get 'page cannot be displayed' error message after running http://localhost/phpinfo.php in my web broswer.
I have installed apache 2 and php version 4.3.10-Win32
I am running Windows xp home version.
Apache web server works fine when running http://localhost/

I have renamed the php.ini.dist file to php.ini and copied php.ini to c:\windows
I have copied the php4ts.dll file to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM

I have also added phpinfo.php file to C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs

In the httpd.conf file I have added
LoadModule php4_module c:/php-4.3.10-Win32/sapi/php4apache2.dll
as well as
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml

I have also uninstalled/reinstalled php but still get same error
I would appreciate any help

tsinka

Hi,

check the file

C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\logs\error_log for any error messages (and post them).

Move php4ts.dll to system32 and restart the apache server.

Thomas

paulz49

Hello tsinka
Thanks for your reply - I have moved the php4ts.dll file to system32 as requested and restarted the apache web server.
I still get 'page cannot be found' error message' when typing in
http://localhost/phpinfo.php into the web browser
Here are the error logs :

[Mon Feb 14 17:18:34 2005] [notice] Parent: Created child process 1920
[Mon Feb 14 17:18:35 2005] [notice] Child 1920: Child process is running
[Mon Feb 14 17:18:35 2005] [notice] Child 1920: Acquired the start mutex.
[Mon Feb 14 17:18:35 2005] [notice] Child 1920: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Mon Feb 14 17:27:53 2005] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Mon Feb 14 17:27:53 2005] [notice] Child 1920: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Mon Feb 14 17:27:54 2005] [notice] Child 1920: Released the start mutex
[Mon Feb 14 17:27:55 2005] [notice] Child 1920: Waiting for 250 worker threads to exit.
[Mon Feb 14 17:27:55 2005] [notice] Child 1920: All worker threads have exited.
[Mon Feb 14 17:27:55 2005] [notice] Child 1920: Child process is exiting
[Mon Feb 14 17:27:55 2005] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.
[Mon Feb 14 17:27:59 2005] [notice] Parent: Created child process 2644
[Mon Feb 14 17:27:59 2005] [notice] Child 2644: Child process is running
[Mon Feb 14 17:28:00 2005] [notice] Child 2644: Acquired the start mutex.
[Mon Feb 14 17:28:00 2005] [notice] Child 2644: Starting 250 worker threads.
[client 127.0.0.1] script 'C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/phpinfo.php' not found or unable to stat

I do have a phpinfo.php file in
C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs - as a 1kb text document .
Hope this helps 🙂
Paul

tsinka

Ok,

check if "hide file extensions for known file types" is enabled in the Windows explorer folder options. If yes, then disable that option and recheck the filename. It might look like phpinfo.php.txt (especially if you used notepad to create the file).

Thomas

paulz49

Hello Thomas

Sir you are a genius 🙂) - my phpinfo file had the extension phpinfo.php.txt - I renamed it now I get the php display on my screen.
Thank you very much for your help - now I just have to figure out php 🙂

Paul