Apache :: "Hello World" Blank Page

RobinR · Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2 Location: New Jersey

I have Windows 2000 Professional on my laptop and installed the apache server to:

C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache

In the httpd.conf file I changed Port 8080 to Port 8060

Therefore, these lines:

Listen 8060
Servername localhost:8060

The comment from the line above has been removed.

For PHP 5 CGI added:
ScriptAlias /php/ “c:/php/”
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
Action application/x-httpd-php “/php/php-cgi.exe”
SetEnv PHPRC C:/php

I restarted the computer and then started the Apache server manually.
The error.log looks fine: Starting thread to listen on port 8060
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I then manually installed php on my laptop

c:\php

Using the Control Panel
System Icon > Environment Variables > System Variables

I edited the path name and added to the end:

;c:\php;c:\php\ext;

and restarted computer

I then renamed the php.ini-recommended file to php.ini and made the following changes:
browscap = “c:\winnt\system32\inetserv\browscap.ini”

cgi.force_redirect = 0

doc_root=”c:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs”
mysql.default_socket = MySql
mysql.default_host = localhost
extension_dir = “c:\php\ext”

Removed comment from beginning of
extension=php_mysql.dll

I then created hello.php and put in web server’s root directory:
C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Test</title>
</head>
<body>
</php echo ‘<p>Hello World</p>’;?>
</body>
</html>
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In Internet Explorer address window

http://localhost:8060/hello.php

I should see the words “Hello World” but I get a blank page.

What do I need to change or add to get PHP to work with the Apache Server?

Thanks,

Robin

Question

RobinR · Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2 Location: New Jersey

There are two different methods of installing the Apache server:
as a CGI binary
as an Apache module

I decided to try the latter and made the necessary changes in httpd.conf to get Apache 2.2 working with PHP 5. However, I then got this error message:

“Cannot load C:\php\php5apache2.dll into server. The specified module could not be found.”

I searched for these words on the internet and found out that Apache 2.2 didn’t work with PHP 5. The writer said he was going back to Apache 2.0. I decided to do the same and PHP now works. Hello.php displays “Hello World”.

Take a look at:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=10326697

This incompatibility between Apache 2.2 and PHP 5 should be corrected.

Robin