Hello Graham.  Thank you for sending the course examples, which I've now extracted to files.

During our course, each of the program files we created had a filename extension of  .php4  - but my Windows (XP) system only works when I change them to  .php  instead.

It took me a while to work out why the  .php4 s weren't working...  Is there a config option or something?  It seems fairly basic info, so I did a search but couldn't find anything helpful.    Thank you...  Charles.

Hello Charles.

What Webserver are you running?
This is a setting in the webserver configuration file

Let me know which it is, I'll be happy to look for you.

jfp

Thank you, jfp!  Pardon my ignorance - I'm running Apache.  Is that what you need to know?    Charles.

>> I'm running Apache.
Great, For a moment I thought you were going to say IIS (yuk!)

Anyway, you need to edit your apache configuration file.
This goes under the name of httpd.conf, I'm afraid I couldn't tell you the location of this file under windows, but a quick search will find it.

First....BACKUP YOUR EXISTING httpd.conf FILE.
Sorry to shout, but I've buggered up my own conf file in the past, and a nice quick roll back is always nice.


Open the httpd.conf file for editing.
You say it will parse a .php extension, so look for the line that reads:

Code:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Then add .php4 to the end of the line so it should now read:
Code:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php4

My httpd.conf file as an example has 4 entrys that start with the string "AddType application/x-httpd-php" and my file reads like this
Code:

AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php4 AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

This tells apache to parse .php & .php4 files through the PHP preprocessor.


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Now you need to tell apache that .php or .php4 extension can be index pages.

Look for the line that starts with:
Code:

DirectoryIndex index.html

There may already be an entry near the end of this line that reads index.php, you need to add index.php4

my http.conf file as an example reads like this on that particular line
Code:

DirectoryIndex index.html home.html index.htm home.htm index.php default.php home.php

Now a restart of Apache to reload the configuration and that should work.

post back if there's any problems.

Regards
jfp

Note: I'm sure you can also do this by ammending your .htaccess file (anyone?) to allow other filename extensions to be parsed through PHP.

That's terrific - thanks a lot.    Charles.

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Note: I'm sure you can also do this by ammending your .htaccess file (anyone?) to allow other filename extensions to be parsed through PHP.

Yes, this will work as well. If you add it to your top directory it will filter it down, or if you add it to a directory below, it will effect only directories below it.

Chris

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