problems with php and apache

[pwm]

sir/madam,

I have set up XAMPP on my Vista Home Premium laptop. Got rid of virus-scanners, skype, other stuff that might block the server. Now, however, php is not being shown properly. When I visit localhost, the XAMPP page is shown, but with PHP code all over the place. Examples are cluttered with php code, I cannot login in PHPmyadmin etc.

Maybe this has something to do that in the past I have had different servers on the system. Those were Coldfusion and IIS. I made sure that they were removed before installing XAMPP.
Furthermore, once I have tried to install Apache (without XAMPP). This failed due to an error. I don't know what was going on, but after it I tried XAMPP.

I hope you guys can help,

thanks

[LooseCannon]

Hello and welcome pwm.

I'd guess this isn't the fault of virus scanners, firewalls, messengers or other such services.

I believe XAMPP installs and configures everything one needs to run Apache and MySQL, which is why it's so very useful. Installing Apache alone can be a challenge.

Maybe uninstall and re-install XAMPP? It doesn't take long. BACKUP any web site specific data beforehand of course.

The code splashed on the screen is probably error messages, propably due to a faulty installation of XAMPP. Would you please copy them here?

[pwm]

Thanks for the advice.

However, I am running both Vista and OpenSuse on my machine and decided to install XAMPP on OpenSuse. Everything is OK under linux. I decided to keep it that way, so I uninstalled XAMPP under vista.
The only problem I have under Linux is that I do not have priviliges to make db's in myPhPadmin. It's sort of weird. Everything works, except that it says that I cannot make databases.

I hope you guys can help.

Thanks!

[LooseCannon]

My pleasure pwm.

This "priviliges to make db's in myPhPadmin" is a new issue that's arisen since you're first post above? So, we've moved on? I'll assume that is the case. I'll also assume you mean phpMyAdmin, just to be sure.

This seems to be a MySQL issue and as such, my knowledge/experience is very limited. It is MySQL access/privileges that determine if a user may create a database, or for that matter, insert/drop/alter etc.

Are you getting into phpMyAdmin as root?

If so, you _should_ have all 'global' privileges, including CREATE. As root, we could probably give root back the ability to create.

EDIT: I've found http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/index.html very useful. That's _not_ an FTFQ...