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[liyanage]

Here's a good explanation someone just sent me. I included a note on the installation instruction page.

[dawnleo]

I too realized that I had (attempted to) install PHP4 before downloading and attempting to install PHP5. But, being a total novice at this web server experiment, how exactly did you "comment out the 2 PHP4 calls?" I need step-by-step instructions... Thanks!
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[f3ze]

Hi guys, if you;re having trouble installing the package like I was, try this:
http://www.mamp.info/en/index.php

This downloaded and installed instantly the whole kaboodle. Not sure yet if its given me extra copies of stuff I dont need (since I already had apache/sql/php4) but its working first go.
There's also a widget for turning on n off servers and it looks like you can get a few servers going at once.

edit: been using it a few hours, i'm impressed - comes complete with phpmyadmin, mysql (all installs on its own) and you can switch between php4 and 5 in seconds... It puts everything in the applications folder, so it is separate to anything else you have, but does mean you can delete it easily. It did also mean having localhost set at port 8888 but in prefs you can change that to 'default ports' and then regular http://localhost works fine.

(marc sorry to paste what might be seen as a competitor to your package, please delete this post if it is)
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[sdrio]

I'm sure I'll get the dummy award for this, but this is still not working for me.

I'mr running 10.4.10 on a mac pro. I have php 4.4.7 and Apache 1.3.33, both of which work OK.

I have run the installer, all the files seem to be there, but it ain't workin . . .

I have commented out the lines in httpd.conf;

#LoadModule php4_module libexec/httpd/libphp4.so

and

#AddModule mod_php4.c

Then restarted apache (stop/start personal web sharing).

When I go to load a page from my server, I get the dialog box to choose how to open the file. So it seems neither is running, although in shell if I type php --version, it reports;

PHP 4.4.7 (cli) (built: Jul 10 2007 10:54:32)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies

Sooo . . . I don't know what's going on.

I don't need php4 at all, this is on a second startup disk, so I'd happily get rid of it. I'd prefer to stick with apache 1.3, but if you think I should, I'll can that too.

The only thing I wonder, is whether I *must* have 10.4.11 - seems I have hosed something else because the download keeps failing to unpack. Another story, which I'm trying to avoid having to fix right now.

Any ideas please?

[jlbrown]

I'm having the same problems sdrio.

Did you get it working?

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

James.

[wegus]

you have to tell the Apache to execute Files with .php-Ending with your Loaded PHP-Module by a line like this in httpd.conf:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php


without making the link between File-Ending and Module Apache does not know what to do with such a file and he either displays it as plain text or offers it for download!
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[jlbrown]

Thanks wegus, that worked!

I added:

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

restarted apache and all works fine now.

Many thanks for your help.

James.