Hi,
I’m working through Kevin Yank’s Build your own Database Driven Website using PHP and MySQL and, tragic though it is, I’m stuck in chapter 1!
Everything has gone beautifully until page 19, step 6, where it says ‘If all is well, Apache will start up again without complaint’. Unfortunately, all is clearly NOT well, and Apache will not start up again.
Does anyone know where I can find some troubleshooting instructions to show me how to work out what went wrong (or how to uninstall everything and try again)?
I’ve doublechecked all the code I entered and it was all as per the book! The only thing that might have been iffy was on page 17, where I was to point the extension_dir at the ext subfolder. There were two lines starting with extension_dir I tried each in turn, but I’m not certain I changed the first one back correctly. Does anyone know if what’s shown below is right?
; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
; http://php.net/extension-dir
; extension_dir = “.\.”
; On windows:
; extension_dir = “C:\PHP\ext”
I’ve also tried pointing both lines at the ext folder and that hasn’t worked either.
Help would be greatly appreciated (and I’m a real newbie at this, so feel free to put it in insulting simple terms).
Jenni