Topic: Configuration problems

[hjf]

I have spent hours and hours and hours trying to figure this out. I'm slowly going insane.

I'm using a book to learn PHP, MySQL and Apache. I've downloaded the latest versions of these 3 applications. I'm working on a PC with Vista Premium Home.

Something is wrong with the configuration of PHP or Apache and I haven't figured out what it is. Apache won't find a phpinfo.php file in the htdocs folder. (but when I type "http://localhost", I get the "It works!" page.)

I read the site admin's April 12 post about setting up Apache and PHP.

I had already installed Apache and edited the php.ini and http.conf files but there were a few edits I hadn't made until I read the admin's post.

(note: LoadModule php5_module C:/php5/php5apache2_2.dll had to be changed to ...C:/php/....in order to work when I restarted Apache.)

Also, per the PHP manual, I edited the php.ini file to set the doc root as follows:
doc_root = c:\apache\htdocs

To test the PHP installation, I created a file named phpinfo.php to execute phpinfo() and saved it to the Apache htdocs folder.

Then, to access the php info, in my browser, I typed "http://localhost/phpinfo.php."

I get the 404 "file not found on this server" error message even though the file is in the Apache htdocs folder.

How do I troubleshoot this problem?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

(One other point, when I restarted Apache, a "black" window (is that a command line window?) flashed and had a statement about not being able to reliably determine the server's something. It flashes so quickly, I can't read it.)

[James Blond]