&quot;Parse Error&quot; with PWS

"Parse Error" with PWS

Anon

Hi;

I cannot diagnose this error (yep ... newbie written all over my forhead ;-):

Parse error: parse error in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\default.php on line 11

And here's the code in line 11:

<?php echo "Hello World"; ?>

PWS installed fine and loads .asp pages, and no errors encountered with PHP install.

WWWRoot has execute, as does the CGI bin directory. The file hello.php I'm trying to execute is in the root directory.

I've stopped and restarted PWS and rebooted, but always generate the above error.

Thanks for any help!

Joel

ame12

If you're not wedded to PWS, try the very easy (and free) BadBlue server for PHP.

http://badblue/helpphp.htm

Tiny download (160K for Win98)... and extremely simple.

cheald

Sounds like an error in your code - is that ALL that's in the file?

Anon

Yeah ... LOL. I just copied the tutorial line from the php.net site to test the configuration. Strange, because PWS is handling ASP alright.

After that error I added similar lines to the file from the tutorial and all generated the same error.

Anon

Wow. In less than two minutes I had BadBlue installed, then PHP, then was executing a test file.

Very cool. Too bad it's all 3:30am ... guess another day is upon when I'll greet the sun :-)

Thanks !!!!!!!!!

Joel

Anon

i'm getting the same error, not with pws but with apache (in it's ibm version)

i did the php 4.06 install by the book - did all the changes to php.ini and httpd.conf

Now, in IE 5.5, the address (url), http://localhost, shows the ibm (powered by apache) welcome screen, but

http://localhost/hello.php shows me an error:

Parse error: parse error in c:\ibm http server\htdocs\hello.php on line 3

Where the IE "View/Source" shows this:

I tried changing the third line to only one instruction

phpinfo()

php echo "Hello World";

but i keep getting the same error message.

What's missing, please ??

Thank you very much

dan radulescu

Anon

i got the same error in the ibm version of apache web server, namely:

Parse error: parse error in c:\ibm http server\htdocs\hello.php on line 3

where the code in hello.php was this:

After awhile, i tried this
#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<head><title>PHP Test</title></head>
<body>
<?php echo "Hello World"; phpinfo(); ?>
</body>

and it worked like a charm: see no space between ? and php; first commented line it's a change, too. Then all combinations started working - no matter if ?php or ? php, with or without comment line

voodoo ??