php.exe?

[creole]

This is pretty strange. When I call something using $PHP_SELF, I don't get the normal page. Instead I get the page loaded into the php/php.exe format. For example, I am trying to use a session for a site I am woking on...the link I use to test it is supposed to "reload" the page. The URL that I have when loading this page is:

http://localhost/trial.php3

<A HREF="<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>">this very page</A>

When I click that link, the URL that shows up in the address bar is this:

http://localhost/php/php.exe/trial.php3

What gives? I am using Apache 1.3 (at least) and PHP 4.0.0 for Windows. Anyone have any clues?

[freddydoesphp]

Yes, since you are running php in cgi mode it makes the path to the page from the executable in this case php.exe. Put $PHP_SELF = $PATH_INFO; at the top off all the pages and your problem will be solved. Keep in mind if and when you move your site to a unix platform you can just comment out the above line.

[creole]

Man...that was easy enough...Freddy, if I remember right, PHP does not run as a module for WIndows Apache yet does it? It is only CGI?

[freddydoesphp]

Creole,

It does however it is horribly unstable. It seems to crash all the time using the LoadedModule in Apache for Windows. You beeter off using CGI mode on windows

[Karl]

The solution being to load the modules from the ini file. I assume we are only talking about a test machine? Even if we are talking about a live web server it makes more sense to have the modules loaded at start anyway (I know they take up memory but it's not as if a web server is running with only 32Mb - well I hope not).

The only time I have had the Win32 Apache modules crash is when I have been using a copy of the latest CVS versions of PHP and the modules.

[Hierophant]

PHP4 runs great as an ISAPI module using PWS and IIS. Maybe you could try using it that way.