Question

Probably crossing a line here… I’m working on a system which runs Coldfusion8.

There are also some PHP Scripts running in the system and I’m having trouble setting this up on my localhost (newbie…)

I have Apache 2.2 with Coldfusion8 and MySQL 5.5 working. PHP 5.2 is installed, but… dead…

Right now I’m tinkering with custom tags from here, which I managed to run inline (great helper file here) but this will only get me half way to the finish line = it only works on the page.

I’m looking for a way to run a php-file which sits in my Apache-htdocs-folder. I can call the script from .htaccess, but nothing really happens. Here is the call:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   Options +FollowSymlinks
   RewriteEngine On

   # Block
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !assets
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !ai-cache

   # Redirect to PHP
   RewriteRule \.(?:jpe?g|gif|png)$ script.php

</IfModule>

Question:
Can anyone tell me if that is possible and how I would go about it? A solution that would not force me to uninstall and reinstall everything would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Start with a standard Lamp stack and make sure apache is running your PHP scripts. Then install CF correctly … done. Or, if CF is already installed, run the “connector” scripts (found in the /bin/connectors directory usually).