File types help

[jason kennedy]

You are probably not running a web server.
Popular choice for PHP is Apache. [url]http://www.apache.org[/url]

if you have downloaded and installed apache, then there may be something
askew with your setup, post more details

best of luck

Jason

"Evil-Smurf" <boriiris@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bg3q8j$9e$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Hello
> I have been trying to build some dynamic php pages using the tutorials...
> But I got a problem on the testing part :(
> When I try to open my php page through localhost explorer wants to

download

> the file and open it in dreamwaver!!!
> How can I make in open with the explorer?
>
>

[Evil-Smurf]

Hello
I have been trying to build some dynamic php pages using the tutorials...
But I got a problem on the testing part :(
When I try to open my php page through localhost explorer wants to download
the file and open it in dreamwaver!!!
How can I make in open with the explorer?

[Gary]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:37:27 +0200, "Evil-Smurf"
<com> wrote:
 

If you can open .html pages through localhost, then you have a web
server. If it is in fact IIS, there is a download of PHP that includes
a Windows installer that will automatically configure IIS to work with
PHP. It should be dead simple, but I cannot speak from experience
because I run Apache server instead of IIS.


Gary

[Evil-Smurf]

eee
I think I have IIS
If it's any good...
but anyway I have been tryind to set up php on it for two days and no good
:(
i dont know what i am doing wrong
going by the istall notes but nothing works...


"jason kennedy" <com> wrote in message
news:bg3s1d$38i$macromedia.com... [/ref]
tutorials... 
> download 
>
>[/ref]

[Gary]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 03:15:11 +0200, "Evil-Smurf"
<com> wrote:
 

I don't do that. I run PHP as a CGI instead of an Apache module.


Gary

[Evil-Smurf]

ok
then ill try to do that istead
but it says there that module is recommended


"Gary White" <please> wrote in message
news:com... 
>
> I don't do that. I run PHP as a CGI instead of an Apache module.
>
>
> Gary[/ref]

[Gary]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:23:00 +0200, "Evil-Smurf"
<com> wrote:
 

I set mine up that way because one of the hosts I use does not have
the GD library set up in their Apache PHP module. If you call PHP as a
CGI, you do have access to it. I wanted that particular library, so
that's the way I set up my local server. I honestly don't know how
much difference it makes, but I know that mine works. :-)


Gary

[Michael]

Gary White wrote:
 

The difference is the performance. The module is always loaded when
the server is running, the CGI has to start a new process first, load
the interpreter and then execute the script. That slows it down a bit.

Micha

[Gary]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:54:07 +0200, Michael Fesser <net>
wrote:
 

Thanks, Michael. I would guess that you're costing a few processor
cycles on the server but, since the bottleneck it the transfer from
server to client, the difference will unlikely be noticeable to the
user. That's provided, of course, that the server isn't terribly
overloaded already.


Gary

[Evil-Smurf]

AAAA :(
nothing works :(

[Evil-Smurf]

oh wait
everything works now !!! :)
YAAY !!!

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED ME OUT HERE!!!
VERY VERY VERY MUCH

i think i configured it to run a cgi
but it didnt work so i tried openning the php.exe and it said that iconv.dll
was missing...
so i copied it to the php.exe dir and everything works ok now
i think
maybe its wrong to it like that but still it seems to work...
maybe that was the reason for the module not working too...

[Evil-Smurf]

hmmmm
now that everything is working i want to ask some q abut the server
i am not sure this is the right place to do so but ppl here helped me alot
and seem to be experienced...

the question is:
how can i now (if i can) that i have a mighty server enter the website from
the net and not from my localhost ???