Php & Apache question

DoubleLetter · 08-29-2001, 09:30 AM

Hello,

I've Apache 1.3x installed on Rh 7.1, with php4 as a module. Now cgi perl and cgi python is working fine and normal html browsing. But when I tried to view a dynamic php page Netscape returns the raw page:

<html>
<body>
<?echo "hello";?>
</body>
</html>

I've chmod the index.php file to readable and executable, but to no effect.

What could be the error ?

Thanks,

Best Regards,
Ahsan A.

DoubleLetter · 08-30-2001, 07:16 AM

Hello again,

Could something be wrong with my configuration ??

I've posted my httpd.conf file at http://spython.sourceforge.net/httpd.txt

I'd appreaciate any help...

Thanks...

jharris · 08-30-2001, 09:19 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DoubleLetter
<html>
<body>
<?echo "hello";?>
</body>
</html>

Shouldn't this be either

Code:

<html>
<body>
<? echo "hello"; ?>
</body>
</html>

or

Code:

<html>
<body>
<?PHP echo "hello"; ?>
</body>
</html>

cheers

Jamie...

DoubleLetter · 08-30-2001, 09:36 AM

I'm in the office right now, so I cant try that.

But I DID try

<?php echo "hello";?>

Does case matter ? I'm sure in THAT respect it doesn't. And even if that WAS the error. Netscape would have still interpreted the page as html.

It doesn't even understand the <html> tags. It just shows the entire source.

Regards..

SensFan · 08-30-2001, 10:08 AM

Based on theat apache config file it appears ok. I played with the one here at work, I removed the Addtype directive restarted it and then it didn't do any of the PHP code, but did do HTML. Then I removed the modules from the config and again it just didn't execute any PHP code, but returned HTML.

I think maybe it's a problem with the file itself like maybe corrupt in ftp or something? maybe make a fresh file and try that? Or try a regular HTML file first. If PHP wasn't installed right you'd still have HTML ok, and you wouldn't see the tags.

The browser is getting a file from the server. The browser seems to have trouble reading the file, a file problem may also explain why the php code was never executed and is therefore returned as is, not as html. Permission problems wouldn't let you even access the file so I don't think thats it. And php code errors would just be an error returned.

hope some of this helps

Cheers,

hself · 08-30-2001, 11:47 AM

But I DID try

<?php echo "hello";?>

Try this instead

<?php echo ("hello"); ?>

Teller_30 · 08-30-2001, 03:31 PM

I had a similar problem.. what fixed it for me was to reinstall the php modules after I changed the .conf file.

Don't ask me why this needed to be done, but it did work for me.

DoubleLetter · 08-31-2001, 01:37 AM

Hello again,

Thank you for your replies.

I solved the problem...

There's a line on the httpd.conf file:

<IfDefine HAVE_PHP4>
LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so
</IfDefine>

I changed this to:

#<IfDefine HAVE_PHP4>
LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so
#</IfDefine>

and this code:

<IfDefine HAVE_PHP4>
AddModule mod_php4.c
</IfDefine>

to:

#<IfDefine HAVE_PHP4>
AddModule mod_php4.c
#</IfDefine>

And it worked.

Weird, though.

MartinF · 10-16-2001, 03:23 PM

I've been having similar problems.

Apache runs just fine. I used the rpm to install php4 but cannot get any parsed php out of from the server.

All indications point to php4 and apache running OK. The php.ini file is in the right place, all the entries for php and perl are in the httpd.conf file.

No clue what could be happening.

I tried commenting the <IfDefine HAVE_PHP4> lines on the apache config file but it had no effect.

I'm at a loss.

Any input would be appreciated

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