[NTLUG:Discuss] Getting php working with Apache.

[Jay Urish]

At 05:57 PM 7/10/2004, you wrote:
>I've been running a simple web site off my home server/firewall PC for a 
>couple
>of years now and I'd like to add a Wiki and forum system - which seems to 
>imply
>a need to get php going (so I can install phpBB and phpWiki).
>
>However, I don't seems to be having any success.  I installed php according
>to instructions and added the couple of lines to the http.conf that's 
>recommended,
>but '.php' documents from my server still come out as ASCII text when I 
>view them
>in a browser.


Did you compile it into apache?


>Can anyone suggest any common mistakes I might have made?   Is there a way to
>test php independently of it's connection to Apache?  (eg can I make it do 
>something
>from the command line?)