[thelist] PHP on earthlink not working

Jason Cleeland jason at cleeland.org
Sat Sep 13 07:49:53 CDT 2003


Have you named the file with a *.php or *.php3 extension?

Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Harness" <magic32 at jps.net>
To: "evolt list" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 2:42 PM
Subject: [thelist] PHP on earthlink not working


> 'Volters,
>
> I'm taking a beginning PHP class, and I'm just trying to implement some of
> the stuff on the website I work on for my boss. Unfortunately, the site is
> hosted by Earthlink. And I can't seem to get *any* php to work, even
though
> they say they support PHP on all their hosting packages, and it should
work
> fine.
>
> I'm just trying to echo something to the screen:
>
> <html>
> <body>
> <?php
> echo "hello world";
> ?>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> I emailed them a few times, and these are the responses.
>
> ********************************************************
> Thank you for contacting us.
>
> We understand that you have problems with the php scripts you have
uploaded.
>
> In order to resolve the issue, I suggest you to place all the .php scripts
> in the CGI folder.
>
> Hope the above information will resolve the issue. If the issue persists,
> please get back to us. We will be happy to assist you.
>
> Krishi K.
> Electronic  Support
>
> AND
>
> Dear Roger,
>
> Thank you for contacting us.
>
> We understand that you have uploaded the php script but receiving the
error
> message when you check it through browser.
>
> I found that the permissions you have set to the php script is read only ,
> hence you have problem with running the script. In order to resolve the
> issue, I suggest you to login into Control center --> File manager -->
click
> on CGI fodler --> Click on permissions of the file. Change the file
> permissions.
> ************************************************
>
> Again, I'm fairly new to PHP, but those kinds of permissions don't even
need
> to be set, do they? And PHP files shouldn't have to be placed int the CGI
> bin, right?
>
> Anyways, I did as they suggested, and still no luck. I am still trying to
> get help from earthlink support, but in the meantime, I just figured i'd
ask
> you smart folks. Maybe I'm just missing something really silly? (other
then
> letting my boss use earthlink as a host :)
>
> as always, tia!
>
> -Roger Harness
>
>
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