Re: [PHP] New to PHP and struggling with the basics

2010-10-04 Thread Col Day
In addition, I think I may have got to the bottom of what I was doing wrong in the first place. I recently swapped out my laptop for my wifes one (she upgraded, well I upgraded hers, and I got the old one) and I forgot that this one didn't automatically boot up into the Administrator profile.

Re: [PHP] New to PHP and struggling with the basics

2010-10-04 Thread Col Day
Steve, That's superb, many thanks for the link! I shall give it a go! Yes I did install apache then php, however I tried to follow the instructions in the Dummies book (what does it make me if I can't follow the dummies book?) but to no avail. I have just printed off the first 40 pages so th

Re: [PHP] New to PHP and struggling with the basics

2010-10-04 Thread Abah Joseph
Your directory configuration should look like this Order Deny,Allow Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI # # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files. # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords: #

RES: [PHP] New to PHP and struggling with the basics

2010-10-04 Thread Alejandro Michelin Salomon
apache. Browse to localhost Alejandro M.S. -Mensagem original- De: Col Day [mailto:colind...@aol.com] Enviada em: segunda-feira, 4 de outubro de 2010 06:31 Para: php-general@lists.php.net Assunto: [PHP] New to PHP and struggling with the basics Hi all, Working with the PHP5 for Dummies

Re: [PHP] New to PHP and struggling with the basics

2010-10-04 Thread Steve Staples
Col. Since you're new to php, then an easy way to install apache, is using XAMPP ( http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html ) I would suggest you remove the apache you have installed, and the php you installed, and install the XAMPP package as it comes prebuilt with mysql, ftp, apache and php,

[PHP] New to PHP and struggling with the basics

2010-10-04 Thread Col Day
Hi all, Working with the PHP5 for Dummies book (yup real noob, feel free to ridicule (after telling me what I've done wrong)) and have installed Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.3.3 onto a laptop running Vista. (yes I know!!!). I've had Apache running fine with my basic web site created using Serif's Webplu

Re: [PHP] New to PHP and struggling with the basics

2010-10-04 Thread kranthi
apache error logs will be helpful in this case. Their location varies depending upon your installation. But in any case they'll be insde your server directory (IIRC it is c:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache by default) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscrib

Re: [PHP] New to PHP and struggling with the basics

2010-10-04 Thread Peter Lind
On 4 October 2010 11:30, Col Day wrote: > Hi all, > > Working with the PHP5 for Dummies book (yup real noob, feel free to ridicule > (after telling me what I've done wrong)) and have installed Apache 2.2 and > PHP 5.3.3 onto a laptop running Vista. (yes I know!!!). > > I've had Apache running fine

Re: [PHP] New to PHP and struggling with the basics

2010-10-04 Thread Col Day
Hi Kranthi, No, I just literally get the "HTML" line shown but absolutely nothing beneath it. "kranthi" wrote in message news:aanlktin2xnthqm-pp7qwtgo=sqtkctthtwz+08bbw...@mail.gmail.com... they should be something like error_log-[date] not sure about windows though However I have found t

Re: [PHP] New to PHP and struggling with the basics

2010-10-04 Thread kranthi
they should be something like error_log-[date] not sure about windows though >>However I have found that if I paste the html into my web page created by >>Serif WebPlus 10 I get the "html" line but not the "php" line. are you saying that you are getting the php code in your browser ? This is a P

Re: [PHP] New to PHP and struggling with the basics

2010-10-04 Thread Col Day
Kranthi Many thanks, any idea on the name of the error logs? Peter, Yes, browsing to the correct location but still getting the 403. this website requires you to log in. Abah, I've gone to the httpd-userdir.conf file and replaced it with your text (not including the directory tree), restarte