Re: Apache File Quesiton

Ok, I believe I have it working....meaning 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 local settings remained My Documents\Sites\barrister) URL prefix : http://localhost/barrister/ How does that reconcile that in the httpd.conf, the server root is C:/xampp/apache? Gary "Nathan Rixham" <nrixham@gmail.com> wrote in message news:4968AF26.4050104@gmail.com... > 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