Mapping difficulties

[esm]

Hi,

I'm new to this forum and new to the rapid php software.

I have XAMPP installed and I am trying to map to the apache/htdocs folder that is part of XAMPP. I go through the mapping procedure but when I click on "Preview", I get an error message "The software is not yet configured for previewing PHP files". What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the help,

esm

[Karlis]

Your web files that you are trying to preview myst be saved in the XAMPP document root (or a subfolder).

I have not had any experiences with XAMPP, but if you use plain apache, the document root is usually c:\apache\htdocs\ so you have to map that to http://localhost/

I am not sure, probably XAMPP does not use the defaults and you need to look in their reference to find out which is the document root folder.

[esm]

Karlis,

Thanks for the response.

I did exactly what you have described, the files I want to preview are in the apache/htdocs folder and I noticed that the file type has changed to Rapidphp.document. Still, I get the error message.

esm

[Karlis]

Probably this may help:

From default XAMPP config file:

Local path should be:
C:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\xampp\

URL should be:
http://localhost/

I observed that xampp uses very weird and non-standard directory / php configuration, so it could be the cause of the problm. Anyway, here is a way to test things:

1) save your index.php file to C:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\xampp\
2) Go to web browser (not the editor) and type http://localhost/index.php

If it works just fine then we can continue searching for the problem, otherwise the xampp does not work correctly.

If you get error message like this:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in C:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\xampp\index.php on line 10
It means that there is an error in the PHP file, index.php file is found and can be displayed but its syntax is not correct.

I am not usre about the XAMPS problem, but many of as are using various web servers with no problems at all.

[esm]

Thanks, I'll try that.

esm

[Elygen]

I use XAMPP and i have no problems. Here are my settings
Preferences->Mappings
Local or FTP Path - C:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\xampp\
Web Server Path - http://localhost/xampp/

Im sure your paths may be different. I had a problem at first but i was missing the last / in the webs server path.

Let me know if you have more problems.

[Karlis]

Elygen, thanks for helping out here