Php Question.......

fernan82 · Post by **fernan82** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 10:14 pm

I made a file with the following code:

<? 
phpinfo(); 
?>

according to what i've read that's supposed to give me all the info about my PHP installation, but it's returning the following error:

No input file specified.

can anyone tell me what's wrong?

My server is a Win2k Advanced IIS Server with the Windows installation of PHP...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 10:57 pm

hmm, I suspect it's IIS causing problems, I don't recomend that server at all. There's lot of security expoits too (SQL worm for slight example).

I still find it strange it's not working though. Maybe try it in lowercase (phpinfo();) but if you get something other then a parse error, it must mean it understands the command.

I also suspect it could be that your php.ini file is missing, but I can't see why, unless you messed around with the files yourself.

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fernan82 · Post by **fernan82** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 11:24 pm

I uninstalled PHP and reinstalled it and now it's working..... i guess something musted been wrong with my PHP installation, i installed it about 6 months ago i think and never used until now... probably i did messed around with something and i don't remember.....

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 12:22 am

Glad to see it's now working. By the way how did you get that to work under Windows? I tried manually installing it many times and could never get it to work.

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fernan82 · Post by **fernan82** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:48 am

I downloaded the installed from: http://www.php.net/get/php-4.3.1-installer...e/from/a/mirror and ran the exe file that's it

it just asks you a few questions during the installation just answer them and click next, next.........finish...... it even configures IIS to run the PHP scripts.... i don't think is that simple with Apache tho......

<edit> i think is the same with Apache only after the installation you have to configure apache to use the php.exe to run the php scripts....when i started my site i was using apache and i had installed php but i don't remember exactly what the procedure was......when i switched to the ASP forum i had to switch to IIS cuz i couldn't get Apache to run the ASP scripts right, the would run but a lot of the features didn't work.... with IIS i can run anything with no probs. that's why i'm sticking with it....i know how you all (Apache admins) don't like IIS at all but it works fine for me...the only thing about it is that is not free and you got to keep up with the updates but that's pretty simple...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 12:40 pm

OH ok, yeah IIS is easier to configure, when I installed php and mysql (well tried) there was no installer - it was a bunch of files I had to edit and move around. Never got it to work. Once I get a Linux server and install RedHat on it, I think it comes preinstalled - hopefully.

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fernan82 · Post by **fernan82** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 3:22 pm

You can use the installer i used with Apache, only you still have to configure Apache after the installation is done but you don't have to edit or move any files around...... so how you got PHP right now?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 6:34 pm

It's a bundle package - has lot of bugs and it's an old version of php and mysql. That's what's causing the parse errors that you see sometimes (they are faulse parse errors - not code errors). Another reason I need a new server, the current is my parants' computer so I can't really do much on that, but my own I could install Red Hat or whatever. I'm thinking of using a few 486's clustered but it would probably cost about the same as buying a good server, and the 486 setup would be temporarly - not sure how long it would last.

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fernan82 · Post by **fernan82** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 10:53 pm

i see.......well check the link i provided above and give it a shot, i'm pretty sure you can install it on top of your current installation so your site won't even go down while you do it (the installation only takes a few mis anyways)....... before it starts the installation it asks you if you want to backup the files you already have so you can restore them if something goes wrong... it also asked me if i wanted to keep using my current php.ini file when i installed it the second time...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 9:29 am

I'll have to try it out and see if it works, if it messes up, this win98 installation is way overdue for a clean install anyway so I can just do that and reroute the domain to my main computer and just have a down message.

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wldkos · Post by **wldkos** » Fri Apr 04, 2003 5:47 pm

get rid of the 486 and get something over 233mhx with atleast 128mb of ram and you are fine. A server running at 66mhz, with 16mb of ram ( i think you said that) will not be a happy server.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 04, 2003 6:12 pm

Actually, it does good as a windows file and print server, but nothing else. UD freezes on it too. I tried it.

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wldkos · Post by **wldkos** » Sat Apr 05, 2003 2:53 pm

now i have a question with php, although it has to do with it on linux. I thought I installed it fine, make, make install, and ./configured it, but for some reason, I can't open my sm_install.php file without seeing a text document! Where did I go wrong?

sorry red.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Apr 05, 2003 5:28 pm

Sorry I can't really help, I tried installing php manually once and I spent about 10 hours non stop, never got it to work.

But if it's working and all, you might want to check in the apache configuration file to see if .php files are set to open with php. I forget what the exact line is, but I'll find it and post it... I'm not at my computer right now.

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