[RESOLVED] no phpinfo()

bitsNpcs

Hi -

I've just installed Apache 2.2.4, MySQL 5.0.45, and PHP 5.2.3 on a WinXP platform for the first time. Apache is running all services, MySQL service is running, php5apache2_2.dll is loaded under Apache. I get no output at all after loading http://localhost/phpinfo.php from my browser (Firefox 2.0.0.7). The code is: <?php phpinfo(); ?> and the folder is: \Apache\htdocs.

I've searched the Web, the PHP site, the manual - all without success. Is there any
help out there?

Thanks

NogDog

What do you see if you do a "View Source" on the empty browser page? (If you see the actual PHP code, then your web server is not sending the file to the PHP parser.)

bitsNpcs

Thanks for the quick reply!

I see only the HTML:

As you can see, the PHP code has been "scrubbed."

NogDog

Where is that HTML content coming from?

bitsNpcs

It's inserted by an extension to Firefox called "Menux."

The source looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

when called by IE 7.

NogDog

Hmmm...that's weird. How about trying something really basic, like the following as the sole contents of a .php file:

<?php
echo "Hello, world.";
?>

This would just be to narrow down whether it's PHP in general or something specific to the way phpinfo() is running in your installation.

bradgrafelman

Is display_errors set to On and error_reporting set to E_ALL ?

Can you show us the modifications to your httpd.conf file you made to install PHP?

Have you checked Apache's error logs for any clues?

bitsNpcs

To NogDog:

Tried your script: same result.

To bradgrafelman:

Thanks. I set display_errors to ON, error_reporting was already set to E_ALL. I checked Apache's error logs (no clues) then restarted Apache (and, presumably, PHP), and ran NogDog's script. No change in Apache error logs, still no output in Firefox.

Yes, of course, here are the changes:

#BEGIN PHP INSTALLER EDITS - REMOVE ONLY ON UNINSTALL
PHPIniDir "C:\Program Files\Server\PHP\"
LoadModule php5_module "C:\Program Files\Server\PHP\php5apache2_2.dll"
#END PHP INSTALLER EDITS - REMOVE ONLY ON UNINSTALL

and:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html

Thanks to you both

bradgrafelman

Only thing I can recommend is to try manually installing PHP. I'm guessing you used the MSI, which I have never trusted myself.

Download the manual install .zip from www.php.net/download and extract the files into a directory such as c:\php. I've read that spaces in paths can potentially cause problems with some webservers, so I usually keep the path simple.

Then, modify your httpd.conf file, replacing PHPIniDir and the path in the LoadModule line with the correct paths. IIRC, the double backslashes aren't needed - try it without those.

As always, make sure you restart Apache to make all of your changes take effect.

bitsNpcs

Oh Happy Day! I changed all the single/double forward slashes to single back slashes and removed all whitespace from the pathnames. bradgrafelman, if you were next to me I'd hug you. Thank you!