your sugesstions please!

[Anon]

Hi every one.
I downloaded Apache,PHP.After installing and configer Apache and PHP,if I access php page through http://localhost/filename.php it is treating like a html page and dipaying as it is php code.Could you please suggest?
Thanking you,
Leela

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Here's a suggestion: R(F)TM

for example:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.php

[mithril]

Leela,

You'll have to excuse Vincent, I think he's escaped from the Perl community. His posts seem to show their trend of the "If I can read the manual, so can you and you're not worthy of my help"🙂 IMHO, not the way to inspire newbies to remain in our (usually) friendly little community.

You need to make a couple of changes to your Apache httpd.conf file to allow Apache to pass PHP files to the interpreter. Since you said that you've aleady configured Apache and PHP, the lines you're concerned with are AddType and DirectoryIndex. The AddType directive tells Apache which files are PHP files. The typical entries are:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-phps .phps

you can also add the .htm and .html extensions to the first line if you want HTML files parsed as PHP docs. The DirectoryIndex directive tells Apache what files to use as the default index pages when no file is specified. The usual suspects are:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.php3 index.phtml index.html index.htm

The order in which the files are listed control the search order Apache uses when it's picking it's default page. I tend to put the PHP files first, but that's your preference. All you need to do now is restart Apache and you should be in business. HTH,

Geoff A. Virgo

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Am I really the only person on this planet who reads the manual of a product when he has a problem installing it?
Or did the guys who wrote it really just waste their time?

[Anon]

Hi Virgo,
Thank you.
Leela

[mithril]

Vincent,

No you're not, and no they didn't. However, that does mean we need to be terse and scornful of people who didn't automatically go to the manual first. It just reflects that they've come from a different background (ie. non-Nix) or posted without thinking first, and we've all done that from time to time. Speaking from my own experience from a few years back, the Apache manual and httpd.conf can be pretty intimidating docs. Especially for someone with no experience in the Nix world (which may or may not be the case with Leela).

I'm just saying that the "Read the manual, don't bother me with such twaddle" attititude is not the best way for either attracting or keeping new people, whatever the language or technology. As far as I'm concerned, the more people we can get programming in PHP, the better the market pentration, the more companies adopting languages like PHP as alternatives to the traditional ASP, Perl, or CGI model. The more support we get, the stronger the Open Source community gets, better job potential, etc.

Cheers,

Geoff A. Virgo