Complete newbie in need of help

soap_mctavish

I'm sure this is a really easy fix, but I can't get php to work properly. i installed apache 2.2.9 and php 5.2.6 following the instructions on the sticky, and created the index.php file as the sticky states. When i open it up in my browser (firefox) it opens correctly and gives me loads of info about my php installation. But firefox doesn't seem to able to read php files properly.
when i open a php file with this code in it:

<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World!</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php

print "Hello World!<br />";
print "Goodbye.<br />";
print "Over and out.";

?>
</body>
</html>

i get this is my web browser:

"; print "Goodbye.
"; print "Over and out."; ?>

Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong? i am running Windows Vista, if that helps

Sorry for the long post

leatherback

When you open it, do you see something like: file://.... or: http://localhost/...

You should see the latter...
Open by going to the address bar, and typing localhost
browse to the right file from there.

soap_mctavish

Yeah, I've done that, and I get a screen that says "It Works!". But when I try to browse to a php file i get what I put in my first post

leatherback

that is really odd. And you are sure that the file that doesn't work is opened through the localhost? Does the file have an .php extension?

soap_mctavish

The file is called helloworld.php, and I've had the same thing happen to me on my laptop. I installed apache using the msi off their website and php using the msi off php.net, so I don't know what's going wrong

leatherback

me neither 😐
If your PhP installation was succesful -which the 'it works would indicate'- and you open the file through localhost, and your setup is -default- to parse .php files as php, it should work..

soap_mctavish

I'll keep trying I guess. Thanks for your help

soap_mctavish

How do i check that I'm opening the file through localhost?

soap_mctavish

I think that was the problem. the files I was trying to open weren't in the htdocs folder in apache. when i put them in there, they work. Thanks for your help though

leatherback

soap mctavish wrote:
I think that was the problem. the files I was trying to open weren't in the htdocs folder in apache. when i put them in there, they work. Thanks for your help though

How can you have openened them through localhost then? That should only show the files which are in your webroot.