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). "Murray" <planetthoughtful@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6481f4d0901092018g31d9a08fkd0321e1532c857f2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 changes, for > example, to the Apache conf files to determine Apache's behaviour), you > would probably use a URL of http://localhost/yourdevdirectory/index.php > etc > to access your actual application. > > This is not to mention that you can go on to setup virtual sites, so that > you could access your site as http://yourapplicationname/index.php. > > M is for Murray > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Gary <gwpaul@xxxxxxx> 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 server. >> >> My confusion is the location of the files. I am using Dreamweaver CS3, >> and >> all of my sites were in My Douments\Sites. When I was trying to set up >> the >> testing server in DW, I directed it to http://localhost. I was pretty >> sure >> it was not going to work, and I was right. I then created a folder in >> C:\xammp\htdocs\ and directed it to there...again no go. >> >> Part of my confusion is that if I create a page as I normally do, and it >> is >> stored in My documents\Sites\sitename, then there is no file that is then >> created in the C:\xammp\htdocs\. >> >> So, does it make sense for me to simply put all of my local files in the >> tester server root folder? Or am I going about it wrong? >> >> Thanks >> >> Gary >> >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
