Free Sever

Hey,

I'm looking for a free server, that supports php, perl, cgi, etc.

Thanks for the help

Hi, DJ

Give PHP Triad a try (http://phpgeek.com/phptriad.php).

That is if you want to set things up on a Win PC.

PHP Triad will install Apache web server, PHP, and MySQL on your machine. You can then fire up Apache from the Start menu. I've been using it at home to test scripts and such.

I haven't tried any Perl scripts on it though.

-Zig

Thanks Captain,

That's something like I was looking for until I get my own server/domain.

I installed it, and ran Apache. Does that mean PHP is running?

<?
echo "Hello world!";
?>
and you'll know

firepages phpdev4 will have perl 5.6, but until then phpdev3's got PHP 4.0.4, MySQL 3.23, and Apache, all configured up.

http://www.firepages.com.au/devindex.html


No matter what you have, you'll know if it's working by writing a short script, (you can skip this step with phpdev -- it comes with examples) saving it as index.php in whatever dir you set your localhost to, going to http://localhost and if you see PHP output, it's up and working

As for perl, just pick up ActivePerl from ActiveState.

LOL, your sig, Slipknot, still cracks me up whenever I see it

How do I put php in a document? Putting the <? ... ?> in .html and .php documents does nothing.

And when I went to run PHP, I got an error parsing browsecap.ini .

I left you a message in ICQ

Thanks Justas...

I got the phpdev3 from firepages. When I run the program, everything seems to work, but when I open a .php document, and go to look at it with ie, it does nothing. It asks me what program to open a .php file with.

Double-clicking doesn't work, you need to get there from http://localhost/somedir/anotherdir/file.php

Instrucs are there for changing where http://localhost is, by default it's c:\phpdev3\www I think. It's done this way so you don't open up your hard drive by default.

apache handles http:// connections, your OS handles file:// connections, so double-clicking won't work...

I did this in the browser buy I get a 403 error: forbidden access.

htt://localhost/c:/windows/desktop/phptest.php .

You can't go upwards from the document root (the folder for http://localhost), that would be a security risk. You will need to change your document root in httpd.conf if you want to be able to go from the C:\ dir.

if your document root is set to C:\serverfiles\ and it contains a subdirectory named \stuff\ and IT contains a file named index.html, you can reference C:\serverfiles\stuff\index.html like http://localhost/stuff/index.html

Instructions are provided for editing your document root here.

Thanks

but I still get that forbidden error, but not in http://localhost

nm i did it
php works!! :