I'm a newbie, so I understand very little technical jargon....
I've just installed Apache version 2.0.49. It took me a long time to understand the concept and then get it working, but I finally did.
I next installed PHP version 4.3.7 from an executable file. I copied the php.ini-dist file from the C:/PHP folder to C:/Windows, and renamed it as php.ini I then edited it to the following:
doc_root = "C:/Program Files/Apache/Apache2/htdocs"
user_dir = "C:/PHP"
I then copied the php4ts.dll to the C:/PHP/sapi folder.
I restarted the Apache server several times in the process, and it restarted with no apparent error.
Next, I inserted the following code into the Apache2/conf/httpd.conf file:
#add PHP capabilities
LoadModule php4_module "C:/PHP/sapi/php4apache2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
despite having been confused by three different theories about what code should be added to the httpd.conf file.
I then restarted the server; it was fine. Next I visited http://localhost, and it acknowledges that it is now a PHP server:
Apache/2.0.49 (Win32) PHP/4.3.7 Server at localhost Port 80
Yet, when I create a file in notepad, containing the phpinfo(); code, and save it as test.php in the htdocs folder I specified in the httpd.conf file, it will only open as either a Notepad file with the code, or as an Internet Explorer page with the code showing.
On the http://localhost page, it acknowledges this test file as:
test.php.txt
Any suggestions? Should I be using a different httpd.conf code? Should I uninstall and reinstall? Should I be using different versions of Apache / PHP? All help is much appreciated, thank you!
