Apache :: Installing PHP5 with Apache2

dscarola · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 3

Hi,

I've been working on getting these two programs to work together the last two days. I am able to get php to execute from a '.html' file. That is, if I put a '.html' file in my htdocs directory & call it from the browser, it executes the simple php script just fine.

However, putting the same exact script into a file with extension '.php' in the htdocs directory gives me the error that the file cannot be found!

I have the following directorives for php file extensions in my httpd.config file:

PHPIniDir "C:/Web/WebServer/PHP/"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

I just can't figure this out. Any ideas?

Thanks very much

Dave

James Blond

Are you sure that you saved the file as file.php and not as file.php.txt ? Windows does not show known file extensions by default.

dscarola · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 3

Yes, just double checked. It is a .php file extension. Thanks

James Blond

If you open it with notepad and choose "Save as..." What is shown than?
Second idea: There must be a file in that path, but apache says: file not found. So you may open command line (cmd) browse to that folder
and type dir and [ENTER] to find out what that file is! Cause you say it is there.

dscarola · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 3

I ended up coming across XAMMP and using it to install the whole package. It went pretty smoothly. Am still having a bit of a problem with .php files that I create. I think the issue is that even though they have .php extensions they are being saved by Windows as text files. I should be able to sort this out. Thanks for your help.