Re: noHELP: previous reply was no help!

Richard White wrote:
> "Richard White" <whiter@gmx.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2ph1a0Fkir5sU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Just in case someone thought that the previous reply to the OP
actually answered it - it didn't.
>
> How do I tell if my Apache server is actually *working*. (Not just
running, but working and serving
> the pages!).??
>
> This may be the problem, as I can't see anything wrong with the PHP
config. But can't tell whether
> Apache is having any effect or not?

How are you asking your browser to open the source file? It should be
via address line (http:/localhost/...). Any other way will not get
Apache involved and therefore not process your PHP.

Ken

"Ken Robinson" <kenrbnsn@rbnsn.com> wrote in message news:cgvmda$82e@odbk17.prod.google.com...
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>
> How are you asking your browser to open the source file? It should be
> via address line (http:/localhost/...). Any other way will not get
> Apache involved and therefore not process your PHP.

OK ... thanks for that. ....:-

Running with http://localhost/test.php instead of c:\........\test.php does indeed work.

Trying either http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1/ to display the index.html page, shows a
seriously distorted page!

This seems to have sorted itself out by going into the HTML and 'reformatting' it (in Frontpage was
ok). Then all of a sudden Apache likes the home page!