[Xitami] php-files not found on server....

[Thomas J. Hruska]

At 12:46 PM 7/30/01 +0200, you wrote:
>I am running xitami version 2.4d9 on windows98 with mysql and php. After
>installing xitami, the perlinstaller and mysql i get  the message that some
>php-files could not be located on my server. I am however very sure the are
>where they should be. In the xitami archieves i found some messages that it
>could be that passing unfilled variables could cause this and that xifusion
>solved the problem. So i downloaded xifusion.zip.
>
>In the readme file in this zip, is said that during the installationprocess
>a xifusion\bin dir is created with a program, later needed in the
>installationprocess of xifusion.

You are referring to the lines that say:
PHP NOTE:  The line in the [Filter] section should look like this:
           .php=c:\cfusion\bin\XiFusion c:\php\php.exe

I assumed that XiFusion was installed in the c:\cfusion\bin directory when
I wrote the documentation.  You have to *manually* extract XiFusion.exe and
put it into a directory somewhere on your hard drive and replace
'c:\cfusion\bin' with the drive and directory where you put the XiFusion
executable (XiFusion.exe).  Note that there is NO fancy install program as
there is really only one necessary file and a 1MB installation program is
hardly necessary for a 65K executable.

BTW, this format of documentation is quite standard for DOS/Console
programs.  DOS is simple to use, but you have to know to translate path
names/drive letters in your head when reading readme.txt files since no two
computer systems are set up exactly the same.  XiFusion is really a Win32
Console mode program, thus I wrote the documentation using DOS
documentation standards in mind.

Also, when you start to work with web servers and interfacing CGI
applications (which is what PHP and ColdFusion really are), knowledge of
how to use DOS comes in quite handy.


           Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight@crosswinds.net
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