Setting apache to automatically recognise .php as base file 2

[JavaSprout]

Firstly, though I've been using Apache locally for over a year now, I'm new to Apache setting up, so easy with me!

I am looking to set up my own server, and want it to auto-magically load my first PHP page.

I have set up Apache 1.3.27 on my system with PHP (having first installed Apache 2.0 and then uninstalled Apache 2.0 when I found it is not compatible with PHP!).

I have set the DocumentRoot directive to point to my folder

DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs/localpindev"

This works OK in that when I enter '

http://localhost'

I get a list of my files. I can also click on my index.php file and it runs OK.

What I REALLY want to happen though is for the index file to automatically run.

Help!!

How do I set it to do this?

Thanks!

 

[BigBadDave]

2 options:

1.) set it in your conf file (C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/conf/httpd.conf)
2.) set it in an ".htaccess" file within the dir

syntax: DirectoryIndex index.php index.shtml index.htm index.html

Regards
David Byng

http://www.byngdesigns.co.uk

davidbyng@hotmail.com

 

[itsteveg]

If you want it to be global (i.e. any directory) just add this to your httpd.conf

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

make sure you have your Loadmodule for php as well and you can also make your index.php recognized as the default index by changing the line in httpd.conf like so:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php

and that should do it.

 

[RhythmAce]

Who told you 2.0 won't do php? Baghdad Bob?

 

[itsteveg]

Yea I missed that one, but there is a version of PHP for apache 2.0 but it is still not recomended for production environments. I have been running it for a while now and I haven't had anything go awry though..

 

[JavaSprout]

Thanks for your quick and accurate help: DirectoryIndex is exactly the command I needed.


And thanks too to RhythmAce for letting us know that it was Baghdad Bob who wrote the page

http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.apache2.php

 

[danielhozac]

Sorry, but I fail to see where that page says that the two are not compatible. I am currently running Apache 2.0.45 with PHP 4.3.0 and it has been working flawlessly.

//Daniel