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How to make php work on "my" computer?

hello,
Does anyone know how I make php work on "my" computer?
I made a mistake in my last post so I fixed it here.

Chris
Jul 16 '05 #1
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Whilst lounging around on Fri, 04 Jul 2003 13:23:37 GMT, "Chris
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following with their Etch-A-Sketch:
hello,
Does anyone know how I make php work on "my" computer?
I made a mistake in my last post so I fixed it here.

Chris

Stop multi posting!

As already stated in another group.. twice:
I N S T A L L I T

Regards,

Ian

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Jul 16 '05 #2
RG

"Chris Krasnichuk" <Kr*******@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:td**********************@news1.calgary.shaw.c a...
hello,
Does anyone know how I make php work on "my" computer?
I made a mistake in my last post so I fixed it here.

Chris

Chris, you need to learn how to install it.
Read up, search for the answer.
How far do you think you are going to get if you can't even install and
configure it.
As a starting point, I suggest you get a reference book. I would also
suggest Beginning PHP from Wrox.
RG
Jul 16 '05 #3
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 13:23:37 GMT, Chris Krasnichuk wrote:
hello,
Does anyone know how I make php work on "my" computer?
I made a mistake in my last post so I fixed it here.

Chris


You should look at
http://www.wowwebdesigns.com/power_g...trio_intro.php

Jul 16 '05 #4
Chris Krasnichuk wrote:
hello,
Does anyone know how I make php work on "my" computer?
I made a mistake in my last post so I fixed it here.

Chris


What does "my" mean here ? You mean "your" computer ? Or what else ?

Bruno

Jul 16 '05 #5
Omg,
Can't anybody answer my question with detail?
I know people have told me to read the installation thingy but my php bible
gave more information then people here.
So if anyone can please give me detail instructions
"Bruno Desthuilliers" <bd***********@removeme.free.fr> wrote in message
news:3F**************@removeme.free.fr...
Chris Krasnichuk wrote:
hello,
Does anyone know how I make php work on "my" computer?
I made a mistake in my last post so I fixed it here.

Chris


What does "my" mean here ? You mean "your" computer ? Or what else ?

Bruno

Jul 16 '05 #6
"Chris Krasnichuk" <Kr*******@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:Ck***********************@news3.calgary.shaw. ca...
Omg,
Can't anybody answer my question with detail?
I know people have told me to read the installation thingy but my php bible gave more information then people here.
So if anyone can please give me detail instructions


I think you need to show people that you are trying. Have you actually tried
downloading PHP and reading the readme file? People are suggesting that you
do it because that is what the readme file is there for - it's written once
in a readme file so a newsgroup message doesn't have to be written
explaining it everytime someone wants to install. If you have tried
installing it and have read the readme, which part exactly is it you are
having trouble with? Did you install Apache? Can you see plain HTML websites
properly? Did PHP seem to install properly? Did running phpinfo() work?
Constantly asking the very general question "how do I get PHP to work?"
makes it sound as though you are too lazy to use a search engine or read the
readme yourself, and people don't tend to go out of their way to exaplain
things if someone is simply too lazy to do it themselves.

I will give you a general overview to get you started. If you have trouble,
come back and state what it was you tried, and what exactly isn't working.

The first step is to install a web server. This will let you see html pages
as if they were on the Internet (that is they have a URL like
http://something instead of C:\something). Apache is the obvious choice, it
is good and most importantly free.

Once that is working you can view web pages by typing "http://localhost/".

Now you need to install PHP so your scripts will work. This plugs into
Apache. I suggest instead of installing these separatly you use a package
like PHPDev. This is Apache, PHP and a few other things bundled together
into an easy to use file for Windows users. You just download it, extract
it, and you're pretty much done. You can get it from www.firepages.com.au.
None of what I have written here is new. I think you have been very unfair
by suggesting no-one has tried to help you. The Apache readme provides all
of this information, but you have shown no indication that you bothered to
read it. The link
http://www.wowwebdesigns.com/power_g...trio_intro.php provided by
Tomislav goes right back to a basic level and explains everything really
well, but again you don't seem to have bothered reading it. WAMP and
PHPTriad also seem to do exaclty the same thing as PHPDev, but again you
don't seem to have bothered trying them.

It's incredibly rude to ignore what people have said and then blaming them
for not trying to help them. If you don't change your attitude nobody is
going to bother trying to help you (it's not like they get anything out of
it - remember they are doing you a favour). If you do genuinely try some of
the things above or in other posts, and have trouble we will be more than
glad to help you. If you ignore it and complain that everything hasn't been
nicely laid out on a platter for you then you can expect to be on everyone's
killfile in very quick order.

Gareth
Jul 16 '05 #7
"Chris Krasnichuk" <Kr*******@shaw.ca> schrieb:
Can't anybody answer my question with detail?
I know people have told me to read the installation thingy but my php bible
gave more information then people here.
So if anyone can please give me detail instructions


Please be more specific. I assume that vou've read
http://www.php.net/manual/en/installation.php and did the described
tasks.

We can't help you if you don't give us an idea about your problem. So
which part of the installation does not work?

Matthias
Jul 16 '05 #8
OK.
I'm sorry if I've been sounding like an idiot.
But I've installed apache, I've installed PHP, I've tryed
http://localhost/[file] but nothing works.
It just keeps coming up with some website thingy.

Please help me I'm starting to give up.

"Gareth Church" <ge******@bigpond.com.au> wrote in message
news:Vu******************@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
"Chris Krasnichuk" <Kr*******@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:Ck***********************@news3.calgary.shaw. ca...
Omg,
Can't anybody answer my question with detail?
I know people have told me to read the installation thingy but my php bible
gave more information then people here.
So if anyone can please give me detail instructions


I think you need to show people that you are trying. Have you actually

tried downloading PHP and reading the readme file? People are suggesting that you do it because that is what the readme file is there for - it's written once in a readme file so a newsgroup message doesn't have to be written
explaining it everytime someone wants to install. If you have tried
installing it and have read the readme, which part exactly is it you are
having trouble with? Did you install Apache? Can you see plain HTML websites properly? Did PHP seem to install properly? Did running phpinfo() work?
Constantly asking the very general question "how do I get PHP to work?"
makes it sound as though you are too lazy to use a search engine or read the readme yourself, and people don't tend to go out of their way to exaplain
things if someone is simply too lazy to do it themselves.

I will give you a general overview to get you started. If you have trouble, come back and state what it was you tried, and what exactly isn't working.

The first step is to install a web server. This will let you see html pages as if they were on the Internet (that is they have a URL like
http://something instead of C:\something). Apache is the obvious choice, it is good and most importantly free.

Once that is working you can view web pages by typing "http://localhost/".

Now you need to install PHP so your scripts will work. This plugs into
Apache. I suggest instead of installing these separatly you use a package
like PHPDev. This is Apache, PHP and a few other things bundled together
into an easy to use file for Windows users. You just download it, extract
it, and you're pretty much done. You can get it from www.firepages.com.au.
None of what I have written here is new. I think you have been very unfair
by suggesting no-one has tried to help you. The Apache readme provides all
of this information, but you have shown no indication that you bothered to
read it. The link
http://www.wowwebdesigns.com/power_g...trio_intro.php provided by Tomislav goes right back to a basic level and explains everything really
well, but again you don't seem to have bothered reading it. WAMP and
PHPTriad also seem to do exaclty the same thing as PHPDev, but again you
don't seem to have bothered trying them.

It's incredibly rude to ignore what people have said and then blaming them
for not trying to help them. If you don't change your attitude nobody is
going to bother trying to help you (it's not like they get anything out of
it - remember they are doing you a favour). If you do genuinely try some of the things above or in other posts, and have trouble we will be more than
glad to help you. If you ignore it and complain that everything hasn't been nicely laid out on a platter for you then you can expect to be on everyone's killfile in very quick order.

Gareth

Jul 16 '05 #9
"Chris Krasnichuk" <Kr*******@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:gJ***********************@news3.calgary.shaw. ca...
OK.
I'm sorry if I've been sounding like an idiot.
And I'm sorry if I was a bit harsh (which I probably was).
But I've installed apache, I've installed PHP, I've tryed
http://localhost/[file] but nothing works.
It just keeps coming up with some website thingy.


That sounds promising. The web site is probably the placeholder that is
created when you install Apache. Now if you go to the directory where you
installed Apache and into the www folder (this may be wrong, I use PHPDev
which does all the work for me. It may well be a different folder for a
regular Apache install) and place your own files in that directory, they
should be visible (either by typing http://localhost/myfile.html or by
replacing the index.html file and just loading http://localhost/) With a bit
of luck your web pages should show.

The next thing to do is test PHP. Generally you use a php file with the line
phpinfo() in it to test this, as it gives you all the information about PHP.
I can't say much more about PHP, because I took the easy way out and used
PHPDev, which sets everything up already. You may well need to configure
some configuration files. I would assume the documentation that comes with
PHP would detail this, or someone here can help. If you have trouble though,
I do recommend a tool like PHPDev (firepages.com.au). It was made for simple
fools like you and I that just want things to work without fiddling around
too much. ll you do is download it, extract it to a directory and run a
batch file to start things off. It will start all the necessary processes
and load up a web page that includes test code (like a file with phpinfo())
so you can test the server. It's designed for exactly what (I assume) you
are doing - just tesing your own scripts at home.

Good luck,
Gareth
Jul 16 '05 #10
What dir do I make it in?
"Geoff Berrow" <$b**@ckdog.co.uk> wrote in message
news:vo********************************@4ax.com...
Message-ID: <9i***********************@news1.calgary.shaw.ca > from Chris
Krasnichuk contained the following:
I've installed phpdev but when I goto http://localhost/phpinfo.php it justcomes up with this site


http://www.commonname.com/en/PowerSe...KxsECUg=&app=1

00
It's reallt getting to me now I'm getting ready to smash my head in the
screen.
Please Help ME!!!!!


Now, I've never got round to installing a server on my machine yet because
I find it just as easy to bang stuff up to my host but, just to confirm,
have you created a file called phpinfo.php and does it contain something
like the following?

<html>
<head>
<title>PHP info</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
</body>
</html>

--
Geoff Berrow
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

Jul 16 '05 #11
Message-ID: <0h***********************@news3.calgary.shaw.ca > from Chris
Krasnichuk contained the following:
What dir do I make it in?


Gareth told you.
But I've installed apache, I've installed PHP, I've tryed
http://localhost/[file] but nothing works.
It just keeps coming up with some website thingy.


That sounds promising. The web site is probably the placeholder that is
created when you install Apache. Now if you go to the directory where you
installed Apache and into the www folder (this may be wrong, I use PHPDev
which does all the work for me. It may well be a different folder for a
regular Apache install) and place your own files in that directory, they
should be visible (either by typing http://localhost/myfile.html or by
replacing the index.html file and just loading http://localhost/) With a bit
of luck your web pages should show.


--
Geoff Berrow
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/
Jul 16 '05 #12
it still just comes up with this page:
http://www.commonname.com/en/PowerSe...sECUg=&app=100
"Geoff Berrow" <$b**@ckdog.co.uk> wrote in message
news:58********************************@4ax.com...
Message-ID: <0h***********************@news3.calgary.shaw.ca > from Chris
Krasnichuk contained the following:
What dir do I make it in?


Gareth told you.
But I've installed apache, I've installed PHP, I've tryed
http://localhost/[file] but nothing works.
It just keeps coming up with some website thingy.


That sounds promising. The web site is probably the placeholder that is
created when you install Apache. Now if you go to the directory where you
installed Apache and into the www folder (this may be wrong, I use PHPDev
which does all the work for me. It may well be a different folder for a
regular Apache install) and place your own files in that directory, they
should be visible (either by typing http://localhost/myfile.html or by
replacing the index.html file and just loading http://localhost/) With a bitof luck your web pages should show.


--
Geoff Berrow
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

Jul 16 '05 #13
Message-ID: <fF***********************@news3.calgary.shaw.ca > from Chris
Krasnichuk contained the following:
it still just comes up with this page:
http://www.commonname.com/en/PowerSe...sECUg=&app=100


Get some PHP enabled webspace til you figure it out.

--
Geoff Berrow
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/
Jul 16 '05 #14
"Chris Krasnichuk" <Kr*******@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:td**********************@news1.calgary.shaw.c a...
hello,
Does anyone know how I make php work on "my" computer?
I made a mistake in my last post so I fixed it here.


Google is your friend.

Googling with "how to configure php apache cgi" gives me as the first link:

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/php4install.shtml

Here's what I did that works fine.

1. Download and install IndigoPerl, available free from www.indigostar.com.
2. Download and install PHP4.
3. Follow the installation instructions for PHP, especially in the section
"b. Running PHP as a CGI binary".

Another link, Googled out of the PHP documentation,

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/install.apache.php

especially the section "Installing PHP on Windows with Apache 1.3.x" should
give you some hints on configuring Apache.

I suspect the results you've obtained so far ensue because you have not
configured Apache correctly. If you with to run PHP as a CGI scripting
language, you simply *must* give Apache the directives that are required to
implement said action.

Good luck.

Bill Segraves


Jul 16 '05 #15
Yeah,
I've already done that ( http://www.dragongames.ca )
"Geoff Berrow" <$b**@ckdog.co.uk> wrote in message
news:u3********************************@4ax.com...
Message-ID: <fF***********************@news3.calgary.shaw.ca > from Chris
Krasnichuk contained the following:
it still just comes up with this page:
http://www.commonname.com/en/PowerSe...KxsECUg=&app=1

00
Get some PHP enabled webspace til you figure it out.

--
Geoff Berrow
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

Jul 16 '05 #16
"Chris Krasnichuk" <Kr*******@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:9i***********************@news1.calgary.shaw. ca...
I've installed phpdev but when I goto http://localhost/phpinfo.php it just
comes up with this site
http://www.commonname.com/en/PowerSe...xsECUg=&app=10
0 It's reallt getting to me now I'm getting ready to smash my head in the
screen.
Please Help ME!!!!!


That seems strange. I presume that commomname.com is the default page that
comes up when your browser can't find the site. I had a similar sort of
problem recently. My browser (IE) wouldn't load http://192.168.0.2/ - it
always looked for it on the 'net. I had to tell it to Never dial a
connection. It was really frustrating. You shouldn't have this problem,
though, since you are working on the one machine (I had to use 192.168.0.2
because it was on another machine).

I'll run through exactly what I did, and hopefully you will be able to pick
up something that you did differently:

1) Downloaded phpdev (I'm using 4.23, on Windows 2000).
2) Double clicked to install. I used the default directory, C:\phpdev
3) Start -> Programs -> phpdev -> phpdev_2K_XP_NT. That is simply a shortcut
to C:\phpdev\2K-NT-XP-phpdev_start.bat. Obviously you use the other batch
file if using Windows 98. That loads up a command prompt that starts Apache
and mySQL, then loads http://localhost/ in the default browser on your
machine (I think it does anyway, I might have changed it - it was a while
ago I installed it). Anyway, you should see a web page that has links to
some folders and files. What this is displaying is everything in the
C:\phpdev\www\ folder.
4) You could click the phpinfo.php file, and that should display something
like this: http://66.197.177.250/phpinfo.php. I would suggest instead you
just click the start_here.htm file. That should display a page with the
firepages.com.au logo at the top of the page (it is displaying from your
local computer though, not the Internet. The address should be
http://localhost/phpdev.
5) From this page you can test various things, like the phpinfo() page.
There's also a page to test GD, which is a facility which lets you create
images on-the-fly using PHP. you can alos test phpMyAdmin, which is a
web-based interface for using mySQL, a database that is often used with PHP.
6) If that works PHP is setup on your computer. All you have to do now is
copy any php files you want to run to the C:\phpdev\www\ directory (or any
subdirectory), and then you should be able to run that php file by typing
http://localhost/phpfile.php into a browser.

Gareth
Jul 16 '05 #17
Message-ID: <Lc**********************@news2.calgary.shaw.ca> from Chris
Krasnichuk contained the following:
Yeah,
I've already done that ( http://www.dragongames.ca )


Cool.

I've just downloaded and installed the PHPDev version of PHP, Apache etc
and it is ridiculously easy.

Download it, run it, start the server from the start menu and your webroot
is at C:/phpdev/www It already contains phpinfo.php for testing.

Now I've got to get into the habit of coding with register globals
off...:-}

--
Geoff Berrow
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/
Jul 16 '05 #18
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Whilst lounging around on Sun, 06 Jul 2003 22:43:03 +0100, Geoff
Berrow <$b**@ckdog.co.uk> amazingly managed to produce the following
with their Etch-A-Sketch:
Now, I've never got round to installing a server on my machine yet
because I find it just as easy to bang stuff up to my host but,
just to confirm, have you created a file called phpinfo.php and
does it contain something like the following?

<html>
<head>
<title>PHP info</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
</body>
</html>

Morning Geoff =)

The HTML code isn't required:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
will generate the entire page for you =)

</useless info>

Regards,

Ian

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--
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digiServ Network - Web solutions
www.digiserv.net | irc.digiserv.net | forum.digiserv.net
Programming, Web design, development & hosting.
Jul 16 '05 #19
Well,
I made it work (finaly)
All I had to do was I went in to internet options, advanced, and then there
was somthing that I guess one of us downloaded (but not me) and i took
everything that it had done to the browser off so in basicly I turned the
thing off.
Then WOO HOO it worked.

And Thanks everybody for all your help you guys gave me I was really
thankful of it.

Chris Krannichuk
At Dragongames.ca
"William Alexander Segraves" <ws******@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:be**********@slb5.atl.mindspring.net...
"Chris Krasnichuk" <Kr*******@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:td**********************@news1.calgary.shaw.c a...
hello,
Does anyone know how I make php work on "my" computer?
I made a mistake in my last post so I fixed it here.
Google is your friend.

Googling with "how to configure php apache cgi" gives me as the first

link:
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/php4install.shtml

Here's what I did that works fine.

1. Download and install IndigoPerl, available free from www.indigostar.com. 2. Download and install PHP4.
3. Follow the installation instructions for PHP, especially in the section
"b. Running PHP as a CGI binary".

Another link, Googled out of the PHP documentation,

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/install.apache.php

especially the section "Installing PHP on Windows with Apache 1.3.x" should give you some hints on configuring Apache.

I suspect the results you've obtained so far ensue because you have not
configured Apache correctly. If you with to run PHP as a CGI scripting
language, you simply *must* give Apache the directives that are required to implement said action.

Good luck.

Bill Segraves

Jul 16 '05 #20
Message-ID: <9v********************************@4ax.com> from Ian.H [dS]
contained the following:
Morning Geoff =)
Evening Ian ;-) Damn, another day gone.
The HTML code isn't required:


Thanks. Actually now that I've installed the phpdev bundle I notice that
the file is already there anyway. It is sooooo easy.

--
Geoff Berrow
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/
Jul 16 '05 #21

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