I don't know anything about apache - and i suppose that this don't have anything to do with your error, but shouldn't the php/html files be located in your "webroot" dir? Lee Seng Fook wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to PHP. I have just downloaded PHP 4.0.6 and Apache 1.3.20 > I followed the online documentation to get PHP in CGI-mode to run on Apache, > i added the following lines in my httpd.conf file as follows. > > ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/" > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php > AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml > Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php.exe" > > But this is my first php script "hello.php" which i put in c:\php directory > > <html> > <head> > <title>PHP Testing</title> > </head> > <body bgcolor=#ffffff> > <?php echo "Hello World<p>"; ?> > </body> > </html> > > But Apache couldn't process this hello.php... it gave me this error. > > [Fri Jul 06 06:35:08 2001] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] c:/php/hello.php is > not executable; ensure interpreted scripts have "#!" first line > [Fri Jul 06 06:35:08 2001] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] couldn't spawn child > process: c:/php/hello.php > > Can someone tell me where did I go wrong? > > Appreciate your help. Many thanks. > > -- > > :-) > Lee -- Michel Laine -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]