I tried installing Vb and i get this message:

You are not running PHP - Please contact your system administrator.

before you attempt anything, just make sure you restart your apache. also, make a index.php file with the content:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>

when you get it to load that page, you installed corectly everything.
until then, i cannot help you much. please keep in mind that this tutorial was installed by alot of people. it's a little tricky sometimes but if you follow at letter all the instructions, it works flawlessly.

I did that and this is what I got:

First it prompted me to save the index.php
Then it was a blank page, also when I restarted apache it said: " The requested operation had failed! "

How can I just remove all the installations and start again step by step?

PHP 4.2.3 released. It fixes a huge list of bugs!! Make sure you update your files.
link is on the first post as usual...

hummmm, I have done it twice now.. and each time I get nothing showing up at http://localhost/ just dsn error?

my windows2k dir is winnt if that matters..

I got all servers running, and greenlight on mysql? huh..
ideas thx boys...

-myles

download the latest snapshot of php 4.3
that fixed all the probs for me. :)

http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip

if you are running win2k or winxp, check to see if IIS (internet information services) is installed running, if it is, remove it via add/remove programs>windows components then uninstall and reinstall apache. this is also good advice if you follow the tutorial precisely and don't get localhost to show up--check for IIS, especially if localhost calls a microsoft page in your browser instead of apache.


from my experience, i had this problem and added this code and it didn't work at first...just an addition...this code should be placed at the beginning of the file, before this code:

i tried initially to put it at the end of the file, not knowing where to place it and apparently it doesn't work there, just about every new page i called in the browser asked me to log in again. at the beginning of the file, it works great. might save someone else some extra troubleshooting.

I have a problem. I downloaded the Triad one because Nakkid's instructions simply didn't work. Well my server worked fine, but now it doesn't work. So I installed again. And I can't edit the MySQL Database and the php files don't work. It can't access the database I guess.

my instructions work. Triad is a lazy way out. period.