Re: 1st install: IE doesn't show anything

Joe wrote:

> On a WinXP machine I've installed MySQL 4.1 successfully and I followed the
> manual steps for installing PHP 4.3.9. When I "open with" IE a test.php file
> nothing happens - no IE window, no extra process, nada. Same thing if I
> start an IE window and then use its address to attempt to open the file -
> nada is shown, just the same directory contents. Here's the file contents:
> <?php
> phpinfo();
> ?>
> Is this a PHP or an IIS 5.0 problem? I've never tested whether my IIS is
> running properly.


A few questions:

Did you view the source for the test.php page?  What did it have?
Can you run PHP from the command line?
-> c:\path\to\your\php\php.exe -h

Depending on these answers, it might be a IIS configuration problem.