Recent content by RKramkowski

Hi Kevin.... I've got it all working. Got my vhosts set up and have several development environments now set up in Dreamweaver. Thanks for your help. Bob

I switched back to WAMP. The install is cleaner. I didn't have an alias set and so went and set it. I now see it in the WAMPServer panel on the lower right. All my aliases are listed there. I still only get the directory listing when I got to http://localhost/domain. I also installed...

OK, I'm getting closer... I've upgraded PHP to v5.2.10 and mySQL to v5.1.34. I've set up a virtual host in the htpd-vhosts.conf file, along with defining localhost in httpd-vhosts.conf so phpMyAdmin still works properly. So on my first development vhost, I followed to the letter the...

Just for completeness though, one of the "P"s is Perl, the other is PHP. But as I'm finding, upgrading individual components isn't necessarily strightforward.

When you said this is the one you use (without the link), since I had been talking about XAMPP, I assumed the "this" you referred to was XAMPP. My bad assumption. Anyway, XAMPP has a lot of stuff in it but I just have the Apache, SQL, phpMyAdmin pieces installed and configured. Although lots...

OK, so far so good. I installed XAMPP, redirected in httpd.conf to my preferred docs structure, upgraded PHP to 5.2.10, upgraded mySQL to 5.1.34. I'm one of those that likes to keep all my versions as up-to-date as is feasible and since this is a fresh development environment, I want to start...

WAMP recommendations? OK, since XAMPP installed and ran, I think my best alternative is to install a prepackaged WAMP server. I didn't like how XAMPP structured all the directories and where it buried everything, including the Apache install. I may try to reinstall and see if it gives me a...

Yeah, I know. The PHP.INI file as downloaded had extension=php_exif.dll loading before extension=php_mbstring.dll because it has them all alphabetical. But I think I figured out that mbstring.dll has to load first so I had to move it's location in the PHP.INI file. Problem is - are there any...

I found the problem with the 403 error. XAMPP modified my httpd-vhosts.conf file and I missed that one. Restoring the previous fixed that. Now I'm back to the original problem where http://localhost/index.php only echoes back all my PHP commands but doesn't interpret/execute them. Running...

Thanks Dre@ms. I took a quick look at that site and it looks interesting. I'll have to delve deeper a little later today. Kevin, no hurry. Although I want to get it straightened out, I'd rather take the time to do it right. I plug away a little each night, looking down different paths that...

Yep, those are the ones. When I started in the beginning, I installed Apache and PHP and all indications were that Apache and PHP were running right. The Apache monitor also indicated that. It wasn't until I installed XAMPP, verified that all works, uninstalled XAMPP, and reinstalled Apache...

OK, so I uninstalled XAMPP and went back to reinstalling Apache and PHP separately. I removed all references and environment variables I could find that referred to XAMPP. So now Apache and PHP start up fine but when I go to localhost, I now get a 403 error. Sounds like a permissions problem...

Well it was there in the firewall, but for Apache, not WAMP since WAMP wasn't installed yet. I found a WAMP download and installed it on my 64 bit machine. It worked. But when I went to edit the httpd.conf file, it was in French! So I downloaded XAMPP. It also installed fine. Now I have...

OK, I have new information... When I install WAMP, it installs and runs properly. But during the install, a msg box popped up stating that Windows firewall was blocking some of the feature and do I want to unblock. So I said yes. It didn't display the changes it made though. So I compared...

Well, I did a clean install on my Win7 laptop. It's 32 bit, not 64 bit. The results are exactly the same.... it echoes back my php commands instead of executing them. It's as if there's some security setting somewhere in Windows preventing it from running. It's probably not IE8 though...