Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:16:52 +0100 From: "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> To: "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk>, "Gerald T. Freymann" <freymann@eagle.ca>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: quick php/apache question re the tags Message-ID: <00bd01c1567f$81f24c60$cdeb1e3e@mark2> References: <00de01c1567d$2c2f1b70$0f01a8c0@phantom> <00b701c1567e$8d8b4ff0$cdeb1e3e@mark2>
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> > I have a FreeBSD 4.3-Release box with: > > > > Apache/1.3.20 > > PHP/4.0.6 > > mod_perl/1.25 > > > > If I call up this sample html file with a web browser, I get a blank page > > and a correct title: > > > > <html> > > <head> > > <title>Example</title> > > </head> > > <body> > > > > <?php > > echo "Hi, I'm a PHP script!"; > > ?> > > > > </body> > > </html> > > > > But if I put the exact same code into a file called "text.php" the > results > > are what you'd expect. > > > > What am I missing in order to have php command in an html file and have > > then processed? > > Couple of possibilities - the file must have the extension .php to be > recognised by apache as php-parseable, and you must have the correct lines > in your httpd.conf file for apache for recognising php files and passing > them to php itself (althogouh I can't check for you right now exactly what > they should be - if you installed from ports they should be there already, > if you installed manually then you may need to add them - I'd imagine > www.php.net will have info on what it is you need to add). Sorry, didn't read the question right there :+) Let me try again... What web browser are you using? It is possible that the browser is interpreting the <? as a tag that it doesn't understand, and if I remember correctly browsers are supposed to ignore completely tags that they don't understand, thus implementing it correctly would be not showing the <? tag or it's contents. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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