Comments displaying on screen using php

[Anon]

Hi,

I am setting up php 4.0.4 to run with apache web server 1.3.14 on a windows 98SE machine.

I downloaded php 4.0.4 from http://www.mm4.de/php4win/download.php3?strFile=php4.0.4-win32-20001210.zip

And downloaded apache_1_3_14_win32_r2.exe from the apache web site.

I installed both of these components and configured apache to run both perl and php.

Every thing works fine except the fact that comments are displayed on the screen.

Even the shebang #! C:\php\php.exe displays on the screen. I tried removing it from the script but when I did I got an internal server error 500.

Is this a bug in php 4.0.4 or is there something simple that I can change in php or apache to get it to work. I have downloaded other versions of php but when I configure them to work with apache I get a “this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down” message when I try to run php scripts.

I configured php the same way every time and could only get it to work with the latest download. I am willing to download and try anther version of php 4 but this version works fine except the comments displaying on the screen.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Anthony Irwin

[Anon]

Probably because you don't need a shebang line in PHP with your config, I assume you set up an alias in your apache config to point php file s to the php.exe file, then you can jsut type php code between <? and ?> and the server will parse it.