Unfortunately, installing and configuring everything myself is part of the course which I need to pass (it's a work thing).
I'll be happy to look in the errors logfile. Where might that sort of thing live?
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Calli - Apr 13, 2011 11:11:30 am PDT #16512 of 25501
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Tom Scola - Apr 13, 2011 11:13:56 am PDT #16513 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
There should be an entry for where the error file lives in the httpd.conf file.
Calli - Apr 13, 2011 11:15:09 am PDT #16514 of 25501
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
OK, thank you. And where does the httpd.conf file live?
amych - Apr 13, 2011 11:16:38 am PDT #16515 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Ah - in that case, carry on with your error logging. And if you're ever looking for a php environment that's easier to set up once you're done with the class, XAMPP (or MAMP, which is a Mac-only thingie along the same lines) makes it very easy. Not something you'd use for an actual server, but I use it on all my machines when I want to run a local test/development environment.
Calli - Apr 13, 2011 11:28:05 am PDT #16516 of 25501
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Thanks, amych. Yeah, this course seems overkill for what I'm planning to do, but it's what they want me to take. And I don't mind learning the installation stuff--I've just hit a wall with it.
Jon B. - Apr 13, 2011 11:36:55 am PDT #16517 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
amych -- How does XAMPP compare with WAMP? Have you tried both? I played with the latter a while back and it was pretty easy to set up.
amych - Apr 13, 2011 11:38:49 am PDT #16518 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I've never used WAMP -- I mostly use MAMP, and I have used XAMPP when I'm not on a mac; my sense is that they're all pretty much the same idea. Also, fun to say in succession!
Jon B. - Apr 13, 2011 11:52:52 am PDT #16519 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Although easy to get tongue-tied at the end there.
Calli - Apr 13, 2011 12:04:13 pm PDT #16520 of 25501
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
OK, I've found an Apache error log. There are several "file does not exist" errors popping up. Maybe I put the file in the wrong place? But the mysql_test.php file is in the htdocs folder right next to the phpinfo.php file, and the latter one came up just fine.
Gah. This is making me feel stupid.
dcp - Apr 13, 2011 12:29:27 pm PDT #16521 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.