Hello World! (no response)

Redsox3 · - Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Hudson Valley NY

Running Windows XP, just starting out with Abyss Web Server and PHP, hoping to eventually make use of MySQL on a home network. I've got Abyss up and running, have downloaded php-4.3.4-Win32, unzipped into C:\php, copied dll files to C:\Windows\system and copied/renamed php.dll to C:\Windows. Have specified REDIRECT_STATUS=200 in the User CGI Environment Variables, also added C:\*.php to CGI Paths and specified C:\php\php.exe in CGI Interpreters. Have hit the restart button on Abyss Console, and rebooted machine to get the dll's into effect.

Wrote the introductory HTML "Hello World" page (hello.html) as follows:

<html>
<body>
<?php
$myvar = "Hello World";
echo $myvar;
?>
</body>
</html>

Stored that html file in C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs directory.

Loading html://localhost/hello.html or clicking on the file in Windows Explorer results in a blank display. Viewing the source code shows the HTML and PHP code in hello.html, and the PHP code fragment is shaded as if it's not even recognized.

Did I overlook anything really obvious?

My therapist says I'll be fine in a couple of years... :)

Thanks,
WMD

Redsox3 · - Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Hudson Valley NY

One thing I suppose I could do is check around to see if anyone else has had the same problem, like two threads down the list (as of right now). I renamed hello.html to hello.php and I'm getting it to work. Man, I hate when I figure it out immediately after posting the question.

Thanx,
WMD

TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA

the cgi Path does not start with C:\*.php
its supposed to be /*.php , we recommend
the PHP installer instead of the zip file !

A Good Tutorial is:

http://os17fan.cjb.net

http://aprelium.com/abyssws/php.html

XvObiVx · - Joined: 01 May 2004 Posts: 9

I'm kind of new to Abyss, but it might be the ".html" part of your file. Did you set your PHP parser to parse .html as .php?

aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

Redsox3,

Your CGI Parameters are wrong. Eventhough you used the Zip installation package of PHP, you should follow the "Adding PHP support" instruction in http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/php.html (so add /*.php to the CGI Paths and not c:\*.php).
Your file is a .html file. So it won't be processed by default by the PHP interpreter. Either change its extension to .php or add html to the list of the extensions associated with PHP.
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