Hi Scott,
BINGO !!!! I'm now getting my "Hello World" loud and clear.
/ In fact I didn't have a real problem, just ignorance. All I had to do
was to change the Index file extension to .PHP.
PHP has been there, working fine, all the while. I just didn't know how
to use it. I have some experience with static HTML and CGI scripts and
never considered the extension could be anything but HTML.
/ And it was a silly mistake to do "ps auxww | fgrep httpd" with the
server turned off.
I started and stopped it so many times in the last few days that I
didn't know anymore what I was doing.
When I run that command now (with the server running :-), of course), I
received a truck load of -DHAVE's and, sure enough, there were many
PHP4' there.
/ I already removed all the changes I had made to the start-up file.
/ Less than two weeks ago I knew next to nothing about Linux and now my
head is bursting with lots of stuff I've learned in that a short time.
This problem has forced me to give the documentation a very thorough
reading (that's my advice to all newcomers).
I realise there's still a lot more to learn (millions of commands, with
billions of options and parameters), but I must say it has been a lot
easier to install than what I expected and the kind a support I'm
getting from people like you is far better than what I'm used to with
many commercial software companies. I hope I can be of some assitance to
future newcomers.
I've been through installing/configuring Linux, KDE, FTP (had small
problem I fixed myself), PHP (major screw-up) and next step will be
MySQL.
Many thanks for you assistance and for your time, JF
> Hi Scott,
>
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> 1 - I do see several blocks <IfDefine>...</IfDefine> in httpd.conf but
I
> only got:
> root 3353 0.0 0.3 1728 564 pts/1 s 15:48 0:00 fgrep httpd
> when I did
> ps auxww | fgrep httpd
Start Apache first. :) That command will show you all the running Apache
processes, their arguments, and a bunch of other information about them.
> 4 - It still doesn't work.
> I'm testing with following index.html. Can you suggest any other test
?
Yeah, don't name your test index.html. Use index.php. PHP will process
all the filetypes it has been told to. You should find something like
this in your configuration file:
<IfDefine HAVE_PHP4>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
</IfDefine>
(after the LoadModule/AddModule stuff.) If you want that to be in the
default list of things to check in a new directory, make sure index.php
is in your DirectoryIndex line.
You could have an equivalent AddType line for .html, but it would be
dumb. PHP would process all HTML files, which would slow things down
unnecessarily.
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Scott Lamb
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