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" <nrixham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4968BA7D.5000700@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Gary wrote: >> 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? >> > > That's server root; what you want is DocumentRoot :) > > here's a bit of an httpd.conf; these are the two bits of concern to you: > > # > # DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your > # documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but > # symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations. > # > DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/apache/htdocs" > > ---AND--- > > # > # Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow > # particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as > # you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it > # below. > # > > # > # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to. > # > <Directory "G:/Apache/httpd/htdocs"> > # > # Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All", > # or any combination of: > #Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews > # > # Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All" > # doesn't give it to you. > # > # The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see > # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options > # for more information. > # > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks > > # > #AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files > # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords: > # Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit > # > AllowOverride All > > # > # Controls who can get stuff from this server. > #. > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </Directory> > > --- > > if you read the comments aswell all should be explained :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php