Help needed with WAMP installation

[bodycount]

I have Installed wamp5 and every time i try and input any thing into my database from a web page i get the following error

"Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /< on this server.
Apache/2.0.55 (Win32) PHP/5.1.2 Server at localhost Port 80"

[mcavic]

In Linux, that means that either the document directory isn't readable by Apache, or that the document directory doesn't have an index.html.

If you're saying that you get that when you submit a form, check the path that the form action is pointing to.

[bodycount]

I am using a form to post data into the data base the form action is as follows.

<form action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post">

I get the error when i post/submit the form.

[bodycount]

I am using the lastest wamp5 if that helps.

The reason i was getting the error was beacuse i was using

$connection = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die ("Unable to connect!");

instead of

$connection = mysqli_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die ("Unable to connect!");

but now when i try and post i get the following error.

Warning: mysql_select_db() [function.mysql-select-db]: Access denied for user 'ODBC'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in C:\wamp\www\connection.php on line 16

Warning: mysql_select_db() [function.mysql-select-db]: A link to the server could not be established in C:\wamp\www\connection.php on line 16
Unable to select database!

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connection.php
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<?php
$host = "localhost";

$user = "root";

$pass = "**********";

$db = "********";

// open connection

$connection = mysqli_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die ("Unable to connect!");

// select database

mysql_select_db($db) or die ("Unable to select database!");

?>

[jatar_k]

maybe this thread will help
[webmasterworld.com...]

[bodycount]

Thanks for that.

I could not get WAMP to work, so i downloaded

Apache 2.0.55
PHP5
mysql
phpmyadmin

I thought i had configed every thing right but when i run any php page i get the contens of the php page displayed

example phpinfo script

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

and this is what is displayed on screen

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

any ideas?

[bodycount]

i think i know what it is , there is a line missing out of httpd.conf ,what do i need to add into the httpd.conf so that apache uses php5?

[Saikou]

In the second reply to this post, the poster referenced Unix...But, you're running on Windows. :)

So here's what you need to add to your httpd.conf file in order to load php5:

# For PHP 5 do something like this:

Search for 'LoadModule' and add this line after the other modules:

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2.dll"

Substituting C:/php/ for your own path

Search for 'AddType' and add this line after the others:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Then go to the very end of your httpd.conf file and add this:

PHPIniDir "C:/php"

Substituting C:/php for your actual path that contains php.ini

Hope this helps!

Also, in php.ini you'll need to enable the extension for mysql...So search for

php_mysql.dll

And uncomment that line.

Regards,
Ken

P.S. - If you don't want to compile by yourself, I suggest using NetServer (search for it or look on HotScripts.com), it works pretty good.