I amend this letter I wrote quite a while ago.
It was Manuel Viet who recommended I download and use wampserver.
Thank you Manuel for your advice (I have downloaded the program), and
my apologies for my mistake.
Brian
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From: Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: New Olympus list submission
Subject: Re: [OM] PHP
Date sent: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:40:37 +1300
Ed wrote
> As mentioned, you need to run a webserver locally to get PHP to
parse in a
> browser. Might be more than you want to bother with.
>
> Another point is by default PHP parses files that end in .php or
.php3 or
> .php4, etc. It doesn't parse .html files unless you tell it to. That
can
> be done either via the php.ini config file, or on a per-directory
basis
> with .htaccess file (addtype .html php5 or something along those
lines, I
> forget offhand).
>
> -Ed
I couldn't see why this should be so.
Then, in a rather obscure part of the PHP for Dummies book, the author
noted that Apache etc were not necessary, but she didn't like that
process
and would not discuss it further.
I then went back to the (difficult first time around) book I bought
first and
checked it out and found they describe how to run PHP without a
server.
However, heeding the advice from Khen Lim that I should use the
program
that does it all for a user, I did download that program (quite a
mission !!).
Now I am trying to find out how large the Apache program is. No place
I
have seen says how large.
Secondly, all download sites I have investigated for the latest
release 2.2.17
do not have ONE file for Apache, but seem to have about 30, so I am
very
unsure if any /all of these are Apache, or what. Not even ONE of the
files in
the recommended download mirrors has the name "Apache".
The obtuseness of the open source developers never ceases to amaze
me.
It's as if they deliberately go out of their way to put stumbling
blocks in the
way of novice would-be users. Little is neat and tidy (except their
actual
programming, I presume). Naming is obscure to say the least.
Brian Swale.
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