[RESOLVED] as if php isn't running... but.. it is!?

ATS16805

i don't think i've ever seen this behavior before-- but who knows...

take a look at this code from the PHP Manual :

<?php
$d = dir("/etc/php5");
echo "Handle: " . $d->handle . "\n";
echo "Path: " . $d->path . "\n";
while (false !== ($entry = $d->read())) {
  echo $entry."\n";
}
$d->close();
?>

which is outputting:

handle . "\n"; echo "Path: " . $d->path . "\n"; while (false !== ($entry = $d->read())) { echo $entry."\n"; } $d->close(); ?>

i've checked the apache2.2 monitor, and even restarted, and everything looks normal (i.e. it's showing Apache2.2.2 (Win32) PHP/4.4.2 )

anyone know what's going on here? i'm probably missing something really obvious. ideas?
thanks!

EDIT: i checked phpinfo() as well. the only thing that sorta jumps out at me is the following, which i don't recall ever seeing before:

_SERVER["HTTP_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"]

is this an apache2.2.2 thing?

bradgrafelman

On your test file... did you perhaps forget to use the .php extension?

ATS16805

that's exactly what i thought too, but it wasn't the case.

that line of thinking helped me to ultimately figure it out. i sort of reversed it-- instead of the having the wrong extension... it was the wrong application server-- i was using HomeSite+ for doing ColdFusion stuff... and when i switched back over to my PHP stuff, i guess HomeSite+ couldn't have known that it too needed to switch-- but it has 'development' mappings such that those settings can be stored for local testing... a pretty cool convenience actually, i think.

so-- bottom line-- i was trying to run php on a coldfusion server! once i switched back to localhost:80 (as opposed to localhost:8500) it was all good.

(note: for anyone who's interested in this sort of thing-- apache can serve both PHP and coldfusion pages just as well, but i didn't have my cfm app. server set up to do that. it's a "jrun mappings" thing)