Installation on OS 10.4

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earachefl
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Installation on OS 10.4

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Hi, I'm trying to learn how to get Apache/MySQL/PHP going on my system, following "Build Your Own DataBase-Driven Web Site using PHP & MySQL, 4th Edition". So far, I have been able get MySQL installed and administered, and Apache is up and running. Yet running a test PHP script doesn't work. I'm not sure if I have the right PHP installed on my system,

The book says to modify the httpd.config file in a few places. First, it says to enable the LoadModule php5_module by removing the # symbol. Ignoring the fact that the httpd.config file isn't in the location that the book says it should be, there is no such line for php5 in the file - just #LoadModule php_4, which I enabled, along with the later #AddModule php_4 line.

Also, the book says to copy the php.ini.default file to a new php.ini file, and modify the mysql.default_socket line to be mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock, which I did. It also says to modify the mysqli.default_socket line in the same way; however, there's no such line in my php.ini file.

After all this configuration stuff is done, the book says to save the following script:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>Today&rsquo;s Date</title>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type"
        content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Today&rsquo;s date (according to this web server) is
      <?php
 
      echo date('l, F dS Y.');
 
      ?>
    </p>
  </body>
</html>
as today.php, save in the /Library/WebServer/Documents folder, and run from the browser as http://localhost/today.php. When I do so, the browser just shows the source code instead of the correctly interpreted script.

So, on OS 10.4.11, should I be looking for a different version of PHP, or do I just need help configuring what I have already? Thanks.

Oh, and p.s., Personal Web Sharing is turned on.
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