On Tue, 11 May 2004 10:01 pm, Rich Sias wrote:
> I installed Apache 2.0 and PHP5 (and MySQL). All the checks seem to
> indicate that all is working fine but for the following that I may be
> misunderstanding.
>
> I winexplore to where I have made 1. today.php and 2. welcome.php. When I
> double click on them I get a windows popup saying that windows cannot open
> this file, what do you wannto do? And wants to set up extension directive.
> If I click open with "Internet Explorer" then I get the non-php stuff to
> display but the php parts are not showing up.

It sounds to me like you are not looking at your *.php files
via your apache server.

> A. Am I really using the server on my XP machine to play things by clicking
> on abc.html files ? How about abc.php files?
>
> B. If something is incorrectly set up, where would I look to check it out
> and fix it up ?

In your php.ini file you could set these...

 display_errors = On 
 error_log = c:\temp\php.log

and check out that log file. Under linux I use "tail -f /var/log/php.log"
to watch the output constantly in real-time... not sure how you
would do that in XP. Maybe delete the file every now and then so
it doesn't get too big... even "cd c:\temp" and "type php.log" or
something.

> I have run many checks and all check out ok. Like php -i, shows all is well
> at running. i.e. no errors. I can start and stop apache.

I think you need to make sure your *.php files are in the docroot
of where apache delivers web pages then use IE to surf to 

 http://localhost/abc.php

Maybe someone else can provide real windows based help.

--markc

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