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I have a project involving PHP and MySQL and I'm having some trouble getting PHP working on my computer.
I downloaded Apache 2.2.15 first and opened the localhost and got "It works!"
I then went to php.net and downloaded VC6 x86 Non Thread Safe and tried making my PHP test page with <?php phpinfo(); ?> and saved it in the htdocs folder in my Apache folder.
But when I try opening my test page I don't get the page I'm supposed to get. Instead I see all of my html/php formatting tags.
Am I doing something wrong? Did I download the wrong version of PHP from the website?
Also, I know about XAMPP but my professor discouraged us from using it so I haven't tried that yet.
I appreciate both of your inputs, however...
I'd prefer not to use XAMPP as my professor is very opposed to it's use regardless of how useful/easy it is. I don't know what his deal is but it seems that he has a bad history with it.
Despite this, I'll probably end up using XAMPP if I can't get separate installs to work. Do you have any suggestions for my current situation? (and so you know, I did access the document with the direct path, hence the fact I got all the tags in the test document instead of the php/html formatting.
I downloaded Apache 2.2.15 first and opened the localhost and got "It works!"
I then went to php.net and downloaded VC6 x86 Non Thread Safe and tried making my PHP test page with <?php phpinfo(); ?> and saved it in the htdocs folder in my Apache folder.
But when I try opening my test page I don't get the page I'm supposed to get. Instead I see all of my html/php formatting tags.
Am I doing something wrong? Did I download the wrong version of PHP from the website?
Also, I know about XAMPP but my professor discouraged us from using it so I haven't tried that yet.
I appreciate both of your inputs, however...
I'd prefer not to use XAMPP as my professor is very opposed to it's use regardless of how useful/easy it is. I don't know what his deal is but it seems that he has a bad history with it.
Despite this, I'll probably end up using XAMPP if I can't get separate installs to work. Do you have any suggestions for my current situation? (and so you know, I did access the document with the direct path, hence the fact I got all the tags in the test document instead of the php/html formatting.