Re: Apache File Quesiton

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 described in "httpd.conf ) C:/localhost/ and a few other variations that are escaping me at this moment, but keep getting an error. Some other BG info Server Model : PHP Mysql Access : Local/Network Testing server folder: C:\Documents and Settings\myname\My Documents\sites\barrister\ (barrister is the name of the file and site) URL Prefix http://localhost/barrister/ (currently) What am I missing (besides a fundemental understanding of it).

think of it as having a local and a remote server on one machine; first you have your source files in your /My Documents/sites/xxxx then you have a directory where your web server (the apache part of xampp) looks for files to server (currently C:/xampp/apache/htdocs) now becuase everything is on the one machine you can take 3 different approaches Approach 1: Keep your site files in there current place (my documents) change testing server folder to a folder your web server can see (like c:/xampp/apache/htdocs/barrister now when you test your files will be copied to htdocs/barrister and made available to see by http://localhost/barrister Approach 2: Change the site root in httpd.conf to match your source folder (so change it to C:\Documents and Settings\myname\My Documents\sites) and change the <Directory> block in httpd.conf to match now you can forget the testing server bit in dreamweaver and simply load up a browser to http://localhost and all you're sites will be displayed there (http://localhost/barrister for the one in question) Approach 3: Use vhosts, but I won't mention until later on, best to get up and running the simple way first :) ps: if you want to do a quick test, simply copy your barrister folder from my documents/sites in to your htdocs folder and open up http://localhost/barrister regards