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Well, you can still use those instructions

they cant if you're on a private network

I opted for this approach, but used phpdev v4.2.3 (not completely sure about which version). Does anyone have any opinion on this particular product? Is there anything I should be aware of that I might not know?

Also, do I have to completely uninstall IIS (on W2K machine) in order to have Apache as my default server? Can they co-exist somehow? Plus, where would I place the web folders I'm developing in order to be able to automatically preview them, for example, when I hit F12 within Dreamweaver ? (In Dreamweaver, F12 automatically loads the currently open document in your default browser)

Thanks in advance for any replies to this.

Sure, just configure them to use different ports.. ie. let apache use port 8080, and let IIS use port 80 (default)

1. Thank you VERY much for the article!!! I'm going to try to set it up tonight! :-)

2. When I get it setup, how can I publish pages so they can be seen on the Internet, and at the same time, keep my PC safe from hackers???

3. I'm running Windows 98SE on an AMD Athlon 1,150mHZ-based PC with 256MB RAM, and a 40GB hard drive. I have ADSL (1500/386), and I have Sygate Personal Firewall Pro and Norton Antivirus Professional 2003 installed on my PC.

I'm new at this, so any advice, tips, tutorials about how to run a safe web server off my PC would be priceless! Thanks in advance! :-)

Ben's article was great for installing Apache and mySQL - it took me less than five minutes to do both. PHP was another story, however. I ran into the same problem as everyone else with the httpd.conf file; the three lines

LoadModule php4_module c:/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll
AddModule mod_php4.c
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

just don't work - Apache will not restart (note that I tried both php4apache.dll and php4apache2.dll). Comment them out, and the Apache server goes back to normal.

I even went back and tried installing the .exe version of PHP, and got a very funny note at the end of the installation saying that the automatic installation was not completely finished, and I would have to configure my machine manually.

Has anyone made any progress with this? Thanks for the comments.

charliek

Here's a zip containing stuff I use.

I'm running Apache 1.3.27 and php-4.2.1-Win32 on a windows 2000 Pro.

I created a PHP script that generates PDF files that are enqueued on a Net Satisfaxtion fax server.

The problem is that after a while the Apache server goes NUTS - it just eats 99% of my processor, often causing my fax server to crash.

Has any of you encountered a similar problem? Maybe not with a fax server, but with Apache on win2k going crazy?

Thank you very much!

Gabriel Hilohi

quit using it then if does that

What happens when you try the script on another server???

Is there a possibility of an infinite loop?

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could help me with this.
I have this code included:

but everytime run it give me error as below:

Is anyone know how to fix this? Please,help me I am greatly appreciated.

you do not have permission to call the file outside the root,

you will need to call it in the following manner



Also if you could please send me the class.recnav.php file to URL? I would be most greatful.

I've found a strange problem with Apache...

I installed it fine... It works, PHP works, MySQL works... everything's peachy...

The problem I'm having is that I can't access it with Internet Explorer using localhost... If i try visiting http://localhost or http://localhost:80 or http://127.0.0.1 with internet explorer i get a 500 Internal Server Error. I CAN access it by using http://(my-ip)

The strange part comes here. I discovered on the weekend that Netscape WILL access http://localhost (and all the others) just as it should. My question comes with this... Why will Internet Explorer not work, but Netscape does?

Additional information... I'm running a software firewall. I used to be able to access localhost without disabling the firewall (before i formated six months ago); and i recently discovered that still can access localhost with Netscape. But to access Apache using Internet Explorer i have to disable the software firewall... disabling the firewall does nothing for localhost (it still doesn't work)...

I can telnet to localhost on port 80, send the string "GET /index.html HTTP/1.0 " and it returns the code as it should...

Finally, why won't Internet Explorer access Apache locally?

what happens if you replace localhost with your machine name?? does it still have the same problem?

I tried everythings it never worked...

Trying to access http://(my-machine-name) only works in Netscape. With Internet Explorer I seem to get a 502 Bad Gateway error.

that's strange hmmm try using just your ip address like for example