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I had my my php working and and was using the above statement to run a php test page. I did not reboot, or restart httpd, but when i came back to play after a 6 day vacation i found that the page no longer displayed the php info. The statement only shows <? phpinfo(); ?> as a standard html.

I have rebooted, httpd restart stop and start, i have looked through my httpd.conf file and made sure that it is loading the php modules and did httpd -T and all is running right? But, i still am not getting display of php info.

Any suggestions.

Look for spaces at the start and end of your php file. PHP can be touchy about that. You could open the file in Windows Notepad and do a CTRL-D to go to end. If the cursor zooms to a blank line, you have found the culprit

No that was not it. It had worked and I had not altered anything. However, i did open the file in 'vi' and look for spaces or none char. Is there anyother way to test php?

Make sure nobody changed your apache config file. You should have a line like:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 .php3 .phtml .php


in there somewhere, or something similar. This is how the server knows that the .php files should be processed before being served.

Ok, i have tryed the above---now for the extreme...I think.

How do i uninstall php, apache, mysql?

I know how to use the gnorpm, but it complaints about all the dependencies and does not like to get them. Is there a command line way that is a little more efficient?

When it comes back to installing what is the best way?

System redhat 7.1
Connection Cable
400 mgz
500 ram