setting up PHP + Apache

Anon

I tried to install a copy of PHP and Apache on windows 2000 professional, the apache server is up and running, but when I try to install PHP, seems apache doesn't recognize the suffix .php, when I run test.php(just a test script print phpinfo()), the browser pop up a download window rather than the output of test.php script.

I followed the instruction to perform the installation.
php.ini is in WINNT directory,
php4ts.dll is in winnt/system32
I also add these tow lines to the .conf file of apache.
LoadModule php4_module c:/php/sapi/php4apache.dll
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

that's what I did, but I got the problem as described in the beginning, anyone has any idea? please help me out!
thanks

Paul

amcgrath

did u restart apache after u made the changes?

Anon

I restart Apache everytime I change the setting, even I restart the computer, the problem is still the same.

any further suggestion?

thanks

Paul

Anon

I have the same setup as you (OS included), but I did not install PHP as a module. (Also, I am clean off a reformat and that is always helpful.)

But I just installed PHP to c:\php\ and put these lines into my httpd.conf.

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

I did nothing else. I did not copy any .ini's or any dll's. Sorry I'm new to Apache and PHP too, but I just thought I'd tell you what I did, and maybe it might help. I did put the above 3 lines close to similar lines that were in the httpd.conf. Such as
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/cgi-bin/"
ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/"
I don't think that matters. Anyway, hope I helped, Zach.

mithril

When you installed Apache, it should have created a /modules directory in the server root (c:\apache\modules for the sake of argument). Move a copy of php4apache.dll into c:\apache\modules and change the LoadModule line to:

  LoadModule php4_module modules/php4apache.dll

Most likely whats happening is that Apache isn't finding the mod_php dll as it starts. The server runs, but not with PHP loaded. Moving the mod dll into a directory which Apache knows exists should solve this problem.

-geoff

Anon

PHP+ Apache are working if I access the php pages via domain name, for example www.mydomain.com/test.php, but it doesn't work when I try to access via localhost, for example 127.0.0.1/test.php, it pops up a download window, but those html page displayed without problem, just php pages have this problem, strange?

any idea?

Paul

Anon

See "Install Apache/PHP/MySQL on Win32" at geocities.com/akindele/