Newbie Getting Loop whenever opening .php program from web browser

[Fred]

I am having a problem I would appreciate any advice given, to help me
resolve it.

Whenever I try to open a .php file, Linux Mandrake 9.1 goes into a
loop, loading copies of the web browser until I have to reboot the
system. I have reinstalled all the php files, but this doesn't seem to
help.

I can't even run the basic Hello World program.

[Erwin Moller]

Fred wrote:

> I am having a problem I would appreciate any advice given, to help me
> resolve it.
>
> Whenever I try to open a .php file, Linux Mandrake 9.1 goes into a
> loop, loading copies of the web browser until I have to reboot the
> system. I have reinstalled all the php files, but this doesn't seem to
> help.
>
> I can't even run the basic Hello World program.

Are you sure this has anything to do with php?
Does the page you are opening maybe contain a funny javascript that opens
the same window again and again, thus entering a stupid loop?
I think php by itself isn't launching browsers on your system. That would be
a really strange thing to do.

Tip: Try killing the process instead of rebooting your comp.
use ps -aux to get a list of processes.
use kill XXX where XXX is the processID of your browser.

Good luck,

Reagrds,
Erwin Moller

[Steve]

[email]adamjhd@hotmail.com[/email] (Fred) wrote in message news:<f7a4724e.0310271832.4cbca849@posting.google. com>...

> I am having a problem I would appreciate any advice given, to help me
> resolve it.
>
> Whenever I try to open a .php file, Linux Mandrake 9.1 goes into a
> loop, loading copies of the web browser until I have to reboot the
> system. I have reinstalled all the php files, but this doesn't seem to
> help.
>
> I can't even run the basic Hello World program.

Sounds like a Mandrake problem.
But just in case, try going to the command line and typing
php helloworld.php
See if you still go into an infinite loop. If you do then something
is seriously messed up here. If not then you know for sure that it's
a problem with Mandrake.

[Fred]

I worked out only this morning the loop was something to do with the
Conqueror Web Browser. Opening the program from another browser, at
least the loop didn't happen. Instead, the code came up on the screen
without having actually run.

Thank you the kind advice. I am going back to the command line, to try
and work out what the problem is. I just hope I don't need to
re-install all the LAMP server software again.