Using .Php ....help!!!!

Anon

I was just introduced to .php and cant seem to use it! I copied downloaded .php files onto my server using front page 2000. When I try to open a .php file it told me I needed photo parade maker to veiw this file. So I downloaded it. Well, I still cannot open php files! Photo Parade tells me that it cannot open this file and to re-install microsoft home greeting or microsoft publisher but I have neither one??!! So i re-installed photo parade to see if that would work and of course it didnt.

Anyone have any ideas for me?? ...is it necessary to use this program called photo parade to veiw/edit .php files? Is their any other conflictions using Frontpage 2000 and editing php files?

thanks a million!
Dustin

lupillo1

Hi
maybe a bad file's association

what windows version do you use?

try of change file association at the Windows explorer

or try shift+left click......Open as.....

and check the box "Always use this program to open these files"....

or try Notepad

Regards.......
José

Anon

Go here:

http://www.webreview.com/2000/09_29/developers/09_29_00_2.shtml

This will show you how to setup Apache/PHP on Win98/NT machine.

Anon

Okay, first of all, I went to that link which basiclly says the same as the step by step php install file. I followed his directions but he is missing various things. He says

find the line that says:
(whatever)

Replace the line with:
(whatever)

but two of the lines he says to find are blank??!!

He says what to put in place but not where to find it.

Also, when I go to "start apache" an error occurs stating that "Could not determine the servers fully qualified domain name using 000.0.0.0 (a server name) for server name)

Maybe I am doing something wrong I don't know! I am simply trying to use a discussion forum (actually the same one we are talking on)in .php format on my web site!

thanks for the input
Dustin

Anon

Open you httpd.conf file with any text editor and search for a word "ServerName".
That's where you should put your hostname, like "www.foobar.com" or IP address, if your hotname cannot be resolved.

Dustin wrote:

find the line that says:
(whatever)

Replace the line with:
(whatever)

but two of the lines he says to find are blank??!!

He says what to put in place but not where to find it.