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"setting up PHP and apache"

firstly, thanks for all the help with CSS but now i've started with PHP (just getting to terms with it). I know a lot of the code but i'm having problems with setting up PHP and APACHE. I think i've installed PHP 4 all ok but the 'httpd.conf' file is confusing me. I've been on lots of sites and they've all told me different things to add to different places. Please can somebody tell me exactly how to set up this httpd.conf file. Thanks in advanced

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After all that. I can't upload php files to the internet!!
f'in BT!!!

Thank you so much, man! I owe you!

Yeah I'm pretty sure most of the options that you choose in the installation are defined within the httpd.conf, so just edit it to your liking.

Thanks anyway. Appreciate the help.

Is it possible to change the settings which you entered during setup of apache (server name, etc)?

Added advice but it appears you have the PHP situation sorted so I edited it for space.

Right, fixed that problem. Now i have another one. Server problem this time

I am also using PHP 5. Here's the bottom part of the 'LoadModule' section of my httpd.conf. I've added the line to the bottom of it but it's incorrect.

LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
#LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so
#LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so
#LoadModule unique_id_module modules/mod_unique_id.so
LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
#LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usertrack.so
#LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
#LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
LoadModule php5_module "c:/web/php/php5apache2.dll

But how comes, all of the files above it are *.so and this one is *.dll
This is driving me insane. Sorry to be annoying guys

This.Celluloid.Dream wrote:
> OK, i found out the problem using 'test configuration'. It's the line
> "LoadModule php5_module "c:/web/php/php5apache2.dll"
> I'm unsure where to place this.

If you browse the file you should already find an existing list of LoadModules.

But I don't think it matters where you add it, as long as it's not in the header bit.

I had similar problems when I tried installing PHP with Apache v1 a while back.

At the moment I'm running PHP5 on Apache 2.0.

I'll just check my httpd.conf to find the lines I added, although remember that the paths will be to different files for PHP4.

LoadModule php5_module "F:/php/php5apache2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
SetEnv PHPRC F:/php
PHPIniDir "F:/php"

[EDIT: Just realized, for PHP4 it should be LoadModule php4_module not
LoadModule php5_module
If your using PHP4, that could be you problem]