Re: [PHP] Apache File Quesiton

2009-01-10 Thread Gary
Ok...now that makes sense, I was looking for the documentroot, not the server root... Thanks to everyone ... Im sure I will be back for more... Gary "Nathan Rixham" wrote in message news:4968ba7d.5000...@gmail.com... > Gary wrote: >> Ok, I believe I have it workingmeaning when I click o

Re: [PHP] Apache File Quesiton

2009-01-10 Thread Nathan Rixham
Gary wrote: Ok, I believe I have it workingmeaning when I click on Live Data View, I see the date appear in my datetest.php page But Im still confused... The succesful configuration (providing I am not suffering from premature exhuberation) is Testing server folder: c:\xampp\htdocs\barr

Re: [PHP] Apache File Quesiton

2009-01-10 Thread Gary
Ok, I believe I have it workingmeaning when I click on Live Data View, I see the date appear in my datetest.php page But Im still confused... The succesful configuration (providing I am not suffering from premature exhuberation) is Testing server folder: c:\xampp\htdocs\barrister (the loca

Re: [PHP] Apache File Quesiton

2009-01-10 Thread Nathan Rixham
Gary wrote: Ok, not yet... If the file I want to test resides in My Documents\Sites\nameofsite, I set my "Test server folder" in DW to map to here...correct? Now down to URL prefix, I have tried http://localhost http://localhost/sitename C:/xampp/apache,( which btw is the Site Root as describ

Re: [PHP] Apache File Quesiton

2009-01-10 Thread Murray
The fundamental thing you're missing, as I understand it (I'm sure someone will speak up if I'm wrong), is that you shouldn't be storing your site outside the htdocs directory. This is where Apache looks for files it can display in your browser. So, you need to move all of the files you have in "M

Re: [PHP] Apache File Quesiton

2009-01-10 Thread Gary
Ok, not yet... If the file I want to test resides in My Documents\Sites\nameofsite, I set my "Test server folder" in DW to map to here...correct? Now down to URL prefix, I have tried http://localhost http://localhost/sitename C:/xampp/apache,( which btw is the Site Root as described in "httpd.co

Re: [PHP] Apache File Quesiton

2009-01-09 Thread Murray
In general, as Phpster points out, your development will take place in directories underneath your htdocs directory, which, if you installed XAMPP into the root directory on C:, would be something like C:\xampp\htdocs\yourdevdirectory. Depending on how XAMPP is configured (you can make many change

Re: [PHP] Apache File Quesiton

2009-01-09 Thread Phpster
Check the httpd.conf file for the location of the web dir. It's the documentroot directive Bastien Sent from my iPod On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:13 PM, "Gary" wrote: Not sure how to word this, but I have just installed the XAMMP package with Apache, PHP for the purpose of having a testing serv