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From: Tony van der Hoff on 16 Mar 2010 14:13 On 16/03/10 16:19, anahata wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:28:22 +0000, chris wrote: > >> Yup. It has all that. And yet Firefox still doesn't know how to deal >> with it??? > > Just to clarify one point: I doubt it has anything to do with Firefox. > Firefox just sends a GET request for the file. > When Apache receives a GET request for your PHP file, it's Apache that > decides whether to send the file contents (i.e. treat like HTML) or > whether to invoke the PHP interpreter on it. To make that decision, it > can rely (depending on configuration) on: > 1) The file name ending in ".php" > 2) The file being marked executable > 3) The file contents as checked against your systems "magic" data file > 4) Maybe something else (my expertise is running out here) > > It's a silly question, but I assume you are fetching both using an > http:// URL and not file:/// ... > Yeah, Apache does that, if, before the PHP can generate the HTML, it outputs a text error message. Poorly written software might well do that. I suggest you actually save the file it's trying to make you do so, and see what it contains. My money's on "Required folder templates_c does not exist or is not writable. <br>Please create the folder or make it writable in order to proceed" -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:tony(a)vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |
From: Chris on 16 Mar 2010 14:41 chris wrote: > On 16/03/10 14:31, Tony wrote: >> What does 'file /var/www/somefile.php' and 'file >> /var/www/anotherfile.php' show from a shell? > > Good question. I'm not at the machine at the moment, I'll check tonight. Both files come back as: "PHP script text"
From: Chris on 16 Mar 2010 14:45 anahata wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:28:22 +0000, chris wrote: > >> Yup. It has all that. And yet Firefox still doesn't know how to deal >> with it??? > > Just to clarify one point: I doubt it has anything to do with Firefox. > Firefox just sends a GET request for the file. OK. > When Apache receives a GET request for your PHP file, it's Apache that > decides whether to send the file contents (i.e. treat like HTML) or > whether to invoke the PHP interpreter on it. To make that decision, it > can rely (depending on configuration) on: > 1) The file name ending in ".php" The file does. > 2) The file being marked executable I get the same result whether it is or isn't. > 3) The file contents as checked against your systems "magic" data file 'file' states it's a php script. > 4) Maybe something else (my expertise is running out here) > > It's a silly question, but I assume you are fetching both using an > http:// URL and not file:/// ... Yup. http://127.0.0.1/install.php
From: Chris on 16 Mar 2010 14:53 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Yeah, Apache does that, if, before the PHP can generate the HTML, it > outputs a text error message. Poorly written software might well do that. > > I suggest you actually save the file it's trying to make you do so, and > see what it contains. > > My money's on > "Required folder templates_c does not exist or is not writable. > <br>Please create the folder or make it writable in order to proceed" 'Fraid not. The downloaded file is a straight copy of install.php. Good thought, though. I didn't think of that. This is really frustrating. Why won't that php file work? Other php files from collabtive are working as much as can be expected, but not the installation one. Which is kind of key...grrr
From: Tony Houghton on 16 Mar 2010 15:07
In <hnnhk7$eg9$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm having trouble installing the above. It's a small project management > server that is installed via a php script in the browser. However, > whenever I try to load the install.php script Firefox wants to download > the file not run it. > > Trying a noddy homemade php script (phpinfo()) runs fine. > > The LAMP is installed and running fine AFAICT, but why won't it run the > install script? I'm no php expert and am wondering whether it's a config > issue. > > Anyone have any pointers as to where I may be going wrong? > > I'm using php5, MySQL 5.1, apache 2.2 on a Mepis 8.5 VM (based debian > lenny). Did you try to fetch it with Firefox, realise something was wrong on the server which you fixed, but it still doesn't work after fixing the problem? I've had that happen because Firefox caches the MIME type as well as the content. Try clearing its cache at least as far back as the first time you tried to fetch it. And/or try another browser. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |