Apache and MySQL work, but where's PHP?

[polyphon]

Have installed XAMPP on Vista with general success. Apache is running, I've built tables, etc. in MySQL.

Why can't I get any PHP page to run? I get either a blank page with no PHP interpretation (but with Source variously intact and missing)...or an outright error.

[Yes, I've installed XAMPP into its own directory, not under "Program Files." And, yes, my PHP files are placed in the xampp\htdocs\new directory! ]

Please help. Thanks, Barry

[Izzy]

Barry, what do you see when you type http://localhost in your browser's address bar?

How are you trying to "run" your php pages?


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[polyphon]

XAMPP for Windows clearly appears.

Furthermore, I can run phpinfo to good effect.

And phpadmin works fine.

Just no interp of actual PHP docs, as .php. I try to run them as .php documents locally from within the xampp/htdocs subdirectory.

Bewildering. Thanks for any help you can offer. Barry

[Wiedmann]

Just no interp of actual PHP docs, as .php. I try to run them as .php documents locally from within the xampp/htdocs subdirectory.

Just to clarify:
You open these files with "http://localhost/foo.php" in your webbrowser?

If yes:
What's the error message / error.log?

If no:
What are you doing exactly? Writing shell scripts?

[polyphon]

Just no interp of actual PHP docs, as .php. I try to run them as .php documents locally from within the xampp/htdocs subdirectory.

Just to clarify:
You open these files with "http://localhost/foo.php" in your webbrowser?

If yes:
What's the error message / error.log?

Yes, lately I've been getting NO error; just a blank web page -- looking at "View Source," all the php code is visible (it displays in the "View Source" of the output).

Originally, pages sometimes produced a "cannot find page" error. but other times they produced a "blank display." When I checked "View Source," the PHP code with missing, so it had apparently been "interpreted" without output.

Any thoughts?

[polyphon]

Any thoughts on my failure to get PHP pages to process / display?

[rogohernande]

I had the same problem with Windows Vista Home Basic. I read somewhere that the problem is the UAC (User Account Control). I uninstalled XAMPP, turned off UAC and reinstalled XAMPP. This time I didn't install the Apache Service, but once XAMPP was installed completely.

[polyphon]

I had the same problem with Windows Vista Home Basic. I read somewhere that the problem is the UAC (User Account Control). I uninstalled XAMPP, turned off UAC and reinstalled XAMPP. This time I didn't install the Apache Service, but once XAMPP was installed completely.

Interesting...my UAC has been turned off since before I installed XAMPP.

Thanks, though! Any other solutions, anyone?