PHP doesn't process php, displays code in browser

Anon

Hi, I am typically use php on my Linux servers but now I have reason to install PHP/Apache/MySQL on a Windows 98 pc. Not for a server just for development. I have followed the Windows setup instructions for installing php4 in Win 98 and configuring Apache.

I added the following to my httpd.conf file:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
ScriptAlias /php/ "C:/php/"
Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php.exe"

I also edited doc_root to be c:\apache\htdocs and extension_dir to be c:\php\ in the php.ini

I am having one problem though, when I go to load my phpinfo.php file in my browser it only displays the file, like this

<? phpinfo() ?>

and doesn't actually print out the enviroment information. Seems to me like Apache isn't recongnizing the php extension. I have triple checked my httpd.conf file for the three lines Apache needs for PHP. I have php installed in c:/php and apache in c:/apache.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thank you,
Tony

Anon

Thats kinda funny cause it looks like it should work. Oh well have you tried it with the full <?php instead of just <?, maybe your php.ini file has short_open_tag set to off.

If you don't require the use of the GD module right away try downloading the Win32 Apache module version from http://php4win.de/

It's way faster and it'll give you access to all those lovely apache only functions 🙂

This is what I have in my Apache httpd.conf file on my development system.

#Load PHP apache module
LoadModule php4_module c:/web/php4/sapi/php4apache.dll
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 .php3 .php .phtml

Anon

Did you restart apache after editing the files?

Anon

Yes, I did stoped, started, restarted, restarted again. It still won't work. I have again double checked my php.ini and httpd.conf files with multiple howto's. I was in the process of downloading the Win32 Apache module version from http://php4win.de/ last night but football distracted me. I will try it again tonight. Thanks for the suggestions.

Anon

Thank you for helping with this problem.

A email I received helped me determine that the file named phpinfo.php was actually a txt file. Windows files extensions!!!! Even notepad saves the silly file extension. Back to Linux for me. Again thanks for all the help. The PHP community does it again.