Re: WEB400 Digest, Vol 7, Issue 59

On 3-Feb-09, at 1:00 PM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Ah, nope. I did not change the PASE apache directive, just the native one.

I'm still learning PHP at this point and I didn't even know about the PASE
config file.

For learning purposes Shannon you might want to consider just loading a distro like XAMPP (Windows) or MAMP (Mac) which will install everything on your PC. You won't be able to use the i specific components, but it lets you get on with learning the language without the additional complexity of the proxy server etc.

The way that PHP works on the i is that the port 89 Apache config set up by the Zend install acts as a proxy and forwards the PHP requests to port 8000. The PASE Apache listens on that port and it is the PASE Apache that has all the PHP hooks in it. That's why you need to familiarize yourself with the Zend menu commands for stopping/starting the servers. It handles both server instances. I heard a while back that IBM were changing the Web HTTP config interface so that it would also work with the PASE instances, but I've not seen it yet so it either didn't happen or is well enough hidden that I missed it.

The PHP Redbook covers all this stuff plus Erwin Earley (in particular) has written a number of articles for different pubs that go through it all.


Jon Paris

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