[RESOLVED] PHP & MYSQL not working!!

kristo5747

Hello!

Please forgive me if I am not posting in the right forum. I am new to PHP and my boss wants me to build an app using MYSQL.

So far, I have been trying to connect to my local mySQL database but to no avail. I wrote this page test.html on my sandbox

<html>
<body>

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","root","somepassword");
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  } 
else echo "Connected";

mysql_close($con);
?>
</html>
</body>

When I go to http://localhost/test.html to test it, nothing happens. No errors. Not even the "Could not connect" error message.

I even tried re-install the RPMs for MySQL/PHP : no change. The weird part is that I am able to connect from the command line to MYSQL, use databases, run queries etc...

What am I doing wrong? Can someone please help?

My sandbox config is:
RedHat 2.6.9 el
Apache 2.2.3
PHP 5.16
MySQL 5.0

Thanks.

djjjozsi

try to rename the .html into .php

and telll us whats happened.

jjozsi.

kristo5747

djjjozsi;10907755 wrote:
try to rename the .html into .php

and telll us whats happened.

jjozsi.

It worked!!! Thank you so much.

Is it because of a setting in Apache's HTTPD.CONF file??

djjjozsi

you have to set that your apache run .html files as
php in your config.

but nothing wrong with a static html file.

here you can read about it.