Apache and ubuntu

[Mike Dugger]

At 05:43 PM 1/14/2008 -0500, Schiz0 wrote:
>On Jan 14, 2008 5:33 PM, Mike Dugger <manifold at golfront.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My system consists of ubuntu 7.10, Apache 2.2.4 and PHP 5.2.1
> >
> > I have installed Apache, PHP and MySql for my education/entertainment in
> > learning a bit about web design. The setup was working fine until I
> > upgraded from 7.04 to 7.10. Now php functions within html will not run,
> > while .php scripts run fine.
>
>If the php tags embedded into HTML aren't proper (Like "<?php" and
>"?>"), they you should enable the "short_open_tag" option in your
>php.ini file.
>
>As for starting/stopping apache, use the script "/etc/init.d/apache2"

I'm not sure what you mean here. When testing my setup I simply inserted
a function: <? phpinfo(); ?>  within an html file. The regular html is rendered
properly, but the function isn't being processed. Does that indicate that I
should enable "short_open_tag" in php.ini?

Sorry to be so clueless, but I just assumed (I know) that with php running in
conjuction with apache that the function would simply be passed from apache
to php and then apache would serve the result. If I simply save that 
function in
a .php file and open it with a browser at "http://localhost/testphp.php" I 
get the
expected result.

Thanks for your response in any event.

- Mike