Installation woes

gcallaway · March 24th, 2008, 07:17 PM

I just completed the installation of php5 on a workstation IIS.

Tried the phpinfo.php which worked fine.

Then tried a simple script:

<http>
<body>
My name is
<? print "Harry";
?>
</body>
</http>

And got "My name is" only.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Glenn Callaway

twr195 · March 25th, 2008, 03:29 AM

What is the file extension?????????? Must be .php

<http>should be <html> but that would not stop it working.

gcallaway · March 25th, 2008, 11:00 AM

Thanks for the shove in the right direction. Doh! Must have been looking at urls to much swapping "HTTP" and "HTML".

Got the .php working but I still can't get code islands inside of HTML to work.

Thanks again,

Glenn :D

Glenn Callaway

twr195 · March 25th, 2008, 11:05 AM

It works on my server. Are you sure you are running the page on your sever. Where have you saved the file to????????? This must be in the root of your server.

gcallaway · March 26th, 2008, 11:38 AM

I've got the file (example.html) in the wwwroot directory. My .php files work fine. But a code island such as:

<html>
<body>

<?php echo "Hello"; ?>

</body>
</html>

Shows a blank page.

Glenn Callaway

twr195 · March 26th, 2008, 11:45 AM

example.html is this the name of the file with the code in?????????

gcallaway · March 28th, 2008, 09:50 AM

Yes, but I also tried renaming the extension to .php and got the same result.

Glenn Callaway

twr195 · March 28th, 2008, 10:02 AM

The file as to be .php in order to work: example.php

There is nothing wrong with the code.
make sure there is no spaces in the file name.

I have found IIS to be a pain with php, so i use XAMPP

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

I know you can set up PHP on windows server, but i have found it a lot better on Apache.

gcallaway · March 31st, 2008, 06:59 PM

Thanks for your help. I'll keep plugging at it and will look to move to Apache. I've always had issues with Microsoft. You hate it and love it.

Glenn

Glenn Callaway

gcallaway · March 31st, 2008, 07:05 PM

I just uploaded it to my website which is Apache and it works fine. Obviously, my local IIS server is the problem.

Thanks for your help. I know that if I'm going to use embedded code islands to test them on my website.

Thanks again,

Glenn

Glenn Callaway