Installing Apache, PHP4, and mySQL

[Anon]

I need help.

I need to configure Apache, PHP4, and mySQL so I can get them all set up for my website. HOW do I do this? I read the docs at php.net, read tutorials from everywhere. I could probably get through it if I had a text editor that listed lines.. In the instructions for configuring it says on line "438" change this to that. Well what text editor will display the lines so I know where to make all this configuring and changing? Thanks a ton!

Jay
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[Anon]

u could try editplus or ultraedit..
www.editplus.com
it displays the rows!

[Anon]

Try www.fixmylinux.com and you'll see a link on their main page that shows you how to do it. Keep in mind that there are some other things to do - like add lines to a .conf file (can't recall which one right now) that accepts php files as valid extension to parse.

E-mail if you need more help.

..Mike

[Anon]

Jay,

Your other option is to run a find on the three types of directives you need to add; Action, AddType, and ScriptAlias. Since examples all three directives will already be in your httpd.conf, all you'd need to do is add the coresponding lines underneath the existing examples. Although I'm sure you've seen them already, I've given the directives which need to be added to httd.conf below.

specifies the path to the folder containing the PHP executable

ScriptAlias /php/ "x:/path/to/php/"

specifies the extensions which you want passed to the PHP engine (these are

the typical entries)

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

specifes the name of the PHP executable

Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php.exe"

All that being said, I'd still recommend that you download EditPlus or something similar. Syntax highlighting is a Good Thing (tm). Hope this helps!!

Cheers,

Geoff