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PHP Apache 2 Mac OS X

This is probably really simple, but I can't find a targeted answer in the archives. I am a neophyte on running a web server, but I have Apache 2, PHP 5, MySQL, etc running happily on MacOS X 10.3.9. Here is the problem. If I embed a PHP script in an HTML document like so:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
This is html
<?php
print ("This is php\n");
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

the server does not seem to understand the script; it just sends out the php source text as if it were part of the html. In my httpd.conf, I have the following statements:

LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

I can't figure out what is missing here. If I just browse a file foo.php with a php script in it, it works happily, but the same script embedded in html does not work. Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks

JEH

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ThomasFranke

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harlow

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I have been following the text and examples in "PHP for the World Wide Web" by Larry Ullman, Peachpit Press, 2001. Here is a very simple example script that he gives in the boook; its name is script_1_3.php:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>First PHP Script</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?PHP
print ("Hello, world!");
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

You are right on the money: I was using a .html extension on this kind of file. When I make it .php, it works fine.

Thanks!

JEH

ThomasFranke

Glad it works ;-)

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