how to add PHP support into a webserver?

jimsonchang

hi to all friends.

does anyone know how we could enable a (simple self made)webserver to support PHP?

thorpe

are you saying you have made a webserver and now would like to build support for php into it? if that be the case, i would assume you might need to download the php source and take a look at that. allot more complex than it may seem though.

heck... i made a (very basic) webserver a few weeks ago, the server itself was written in php, but i couldnt for the life of me get php to actually run on it.

jimson

the method which i currently knew is like below.

copy the files below into a directory, C:\PHP
php.exe
php4ts.dll
php4ts.lib

create a simple php file like below.

<?php
for($i=0; $i<5; $i++) {
   echo "number ".$i."\r\n";
}
?>

then run the php.exe from command

C:\PHP>php test.txt
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11

number 0
number 1
number 2
number 3
number 4

C:\PHP>

this method should work fine for simple webserver, but i am thinking if there is another way to do php parsing?

btw, jimson and jimsonchang is same person 😉

thorpe

yeah the problem i had was figuring out how to create my own $SERVER, and $SESSION arrays. well, that wasn't the only problem.

depending how keen you are, you really need to look at how mod_php works in apache.

also, you might want to take a look at nanoweb, it is a webserver written in php that has some basic php support. im pretty sure you need to be running a cgi version of php to get this server to execute php scripts.

i played with this stuff for weeks, just because i wanted to learn more about http and sockets, its all good fun, but a little too much work for me. well, at the moment anyway.

might give you some ideas.

halojoy

Originally posted by thorpe also, you might want to take a look at nanoweb, it is a webserver written in php that has some basic php support. im pretty sure you need to be running a cgi version of php to get this server to execute php scripts.

I used to have Windows98.
I then tried to install nanoweb but couldn't install it to work.
NanoWeb main versions are for Linux.
But is an older Windows version for download. As far as I know.
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