Topic: cant seem to get PHP to run on apache 2.2

[sjhancox]

Hi,

I am new to all of this and can't seem to get PHP to run on Apache. I have installed Apache but cannot get it to respond to http://localhost. This may be because I cannot get the Apache service to start unless I configure the Apache server to start with either a different IP address or Port number - i.e. I currently have it configured to listen on port 82.

If I run http://localhost i get the ususal webpage cannot be found message.

If i then try http://localhost:82 i get the "it works!" page.

From this I assume that Apache is up and running. I have been following a guide to try and get PHP running on it aswell and so far have followed all of the config suggested by adding the following lines to httpd.conf:

LoadModule php5_module c:/php/php5apache2_2.dll

PHPIniDir "C:/php/"

and

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html

The guide then suggests to make a php file called phpinfo.php which contains the following:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

and save it in the htdocs directory.

It then says to go to http://localhost/phpinfo.php this should then give me details of the php install. If I do this i get the webpage cannot be displayed page as before. If I also try http://localhost:82/phpinfo.php i also get the webpage cannot be found message.

Has anyone got any ideas if I've missed something or doing something wrong? As I said I am new to this and don't really know what I am looking for to fix it as yet.

I am running Win XP home SP3 with no firewall apps running at all.

Any help would be greatully appreciated.

Simon

[James Blond]

Please read Basic PHP Troubleshooting

if you stil have a question post again.

[sjhancox]

James Blond,

Thanks for that - my php file was called phpinfo.php.txt. DOH!!!!

Removed the txt and all working now.

Thanks

Simon