Installation help

[Jack McKalling]

Hello,I have an external harddrive on an USB port, and I have installed Apache 2.2.3 installed on it, as well as MySQL 5.0.24a and PHP 4.4.4. (between brackets, is that a fine combination?)I want to virtually turn this hard drive into a Apache server with PHP & MySQL support. The server works, I can open files via http://localhost/. I can't test the MySQL installation yet because I would use PHP for that. And PHP doesn't work! If I create a valid php file with only an echo statement and call the file, I get the popup asking to save the file. I have read the http://www.php.net documentation about this, read their FAQ and read their FAQts, went to their Knowledge Base, done everything. Nowhere I can get a working sollution to be able to let PHPprocess the PHP files on this host.Ofcource I have configured Apache to link to PHP or however you call it that should be done, and visa versa. But that is the problem, I don't know if I have done it correctly. I have checked all PHP directives, they seem to be fine, and the settings in the httpd.conf are fine too. Although I suppose they do. I think PHP extension doesn't get send to the CGI program for processing, but directly to the client (even a baby would know this is unwanted).How exactly should I deal with this? I found some sollutions, like adding ";C:\php" to Windows PATH, though in my case it must be ";Z:\PHP" because it is on the external harddrive, and like adding the php-cgi executable to be the program to be opened at the PHP extension of Windows. Nothing works. Anyone? -note: if you need any specifications or directives with their settings, I'll give them. but ask me which one, I can't give the whole .ini file.

[reportingsjr]

It sounds like it thinks .php is a file to be downloaded, like a zip file. Are you sure there is nothing wrong with your httpd.conf? Also, Iw ouldnt recommend making the path Z:\ or anything because windows is retarded and drives get label accordingly to the last labeled one, so if you had up to d:\ drive then if you put in your external hard drive in it will be E:\ so you will get an error .

[Jack McKalling]

I don't say it is not the httpd.conf, I say according to me, it seems okay. I don't know much about it.And I did label the drive "Z", so that would not cause any error, thats not it. It might still be that httpd.conf, I just don't know. Could you please specify what should be configured how, so I can check if it is done correctly? Ask me anything at all, I want to give more information but just don't know what.

[Little Goat]

here's a good tutorial: http://www.expertsrt.com/tutorials/Matt/install-apache.html this is PHP5, but just do the httpd.conf part, and it should work.

[Jack McKalling]

Thank you little Goat! This tutorial was very helpful. In fact, my virtual server is now running with implementation of PHP and MySQL, perfectly in working order! :)I don't know much about granting users in my mysql server yet, but that will come. I still use the root user, this server will not become a public one by a long shot so I don't need other users yet anyway