Let me first say i really appreciate your time.....i hope i can repay you in some way...
now i applied the code and php did not parse the page

Okay, can you make an exact copy of the file and call it testfail.htm
run the following command from the /var/www/html directory.
Then I can have a look at the script you are using.

graeme

what next???

when i open up my browser to run the .htm file i get the same reaction that is just the first lettering "Hello this is my first php page " and the rest blank

When contemplating getting apache and php running on my own box I read the very fine tutorials available on this site. The one for PHP5 had a lot of pages, with "dependency this..." and "config file that..." and "compile from source". The tutorial for PHP4 was basically "yum install php4". I went with PHP4. Is there some compelling reason why it must be PHP5?

no i could go with php 4
should i uninstall php 5 first??
let me post this
i did a php -v
and this came up
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './bcmath.so' - ./bcmath.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './dba.so' - ./dba.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './dom.so' - ./dom.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './gd.so' - ./gd.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './imap.so' - ./imap.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './ldap.so' - ./ldap.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './mbstring.so' - ./mbstring.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './mysql.so' - ./mysql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './mysqli.so' - ./mysqli.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './ncurses.so' - ./ncurses.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './odbc.so' - ./odbc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './pgsql.so' - ./pgsql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './snmp.so' - ./snmp.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './soap.so' - ./soap.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './xmlrpc.so' - ./xmlrpc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './xsl.so' - ./xsl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

Hi John,

I hate to say it, but your PHP install is rather seriously b0rked. I have no idea *why*, but it sure seems like it is. Please uninstall php (and its dependent packages) then reinstall (best bet for that is "yum install php-\*"). Best of luck!

-David Chipman

should i go with php4?

Hi John,

Sure, go with php4 (unless, of course, you need something in PHP 5). Best of luck getting things working!

-David Chipman

Sorry I had to go away for a meeting.

Okay the script works on my set up but not yours...

So looking at the .ini file that you posted I see one alarm bell.
I have the following set up
You may need a different path value but it will have to link to the modules that you have installed, I belive that path is teh default path. The ini file for the loadable modules reside in the /etc/php.d directory.

graeme

Can someone please post a php.ini on here so that i can compare to my configuration
i need a working php 5

The file is too long to post here but I'm happy to email it to you, so please contact me and I'll send it to you

After all of that i am still not parsing the pages.......i dont know what to do and i am at a total loss
is there anything else that i can check???????????

Hi John,

What file extension are you using? Did you reinstall the php software, and retry the command line interpreter (To make sure it's working now)? are there *no* errors showing up in the error_log file? Just some more questions to answer, nothin special

im not sure im useing the command line interpreter properly.......since im a new user to fedora how should i use the command line??