earachefl Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Hi, I'm trying to learn how to get Apache/MySQL/PHP going on my system, following "Build Your Own DataBase-Driven Web Site using PHP & MySQL, 4th Edition". So far, I have been able get MySQL installed and administered, and Apache is up and running. Yet running a test PHP script doesn't work. I'm not sure if I have the right PHP installed on my system, The book says to modify the httpd.config file in a few places. First, it says to enable the LoadModule php5_module by removing the # symbol. Ignoring the fact that the httpd.config file isn't in the location that the book says it should be, there is no such line for php5 in the file - just #LoadModule php_4, which I enabled, along with the later #AddModule php_4 line. Also, the book says to copy the php.ini.default file to a new php.ini file, and modify the mysql.default_socket line to be mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock, which I did. It also says to modify the mysqli.default_socket line in the same way; however, there's no such line in my php.ini file. After all this configuration stuff is done, the book says to save the following script: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>Today’s Date</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> </head> <body> <p>Today’s date (according to this web server) is <?php echo date('l, F dS Y.'); ?> </p> </body> </html> as today.php, save in the /Library/WebServer/Documents folder, and run from the browser as http://localhost/today.php. When I do so, the browser just shows the source code instead of the correctly interpreted script. So, on OS 10.4.11, should I be looking for a different version of PHP, or do I just need help configuring what I have already? Thanks. Oh, and p.s., Personal Web Sharing is turned on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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