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Thanks for taking an interest. I had already got into the Access hosts bit of things. It should have worked according to what I was told from elsewhere (which agreed with what you told me) but it didn't. I even set it to %.%.%.% (dangerous, but very temporary) and that didn't help either. Frankly, I ...

XAMPP is installed, relatively painlessly. There are still a few hiccups though, and I'm beginning to wonder if this is something fundamental that I'm not going to resolve: 1. Setting the directory root. If I change that to where my local copy webpages normally reside, I can no longer get to the ...

Ikeo I thought that was the solution, but sadly "No". :cry: I found the line you mentioned, and modified it. I also found a bit in php.ini telling me I needed to set the extension directory. I did that (I think) by including the line: extension_dir = ".;c:\php\ext" Still no luck! I think I'm going ...

chrisjlocke wrote:Have you heard of Xampp?

Only from reading this forum. I'm going to have a look at it now. Anything that makes Apache, PHP and mySQL less painful has got to be good.

We're getting somewhere. :) I got display_errors to "on" when I re-booted the computer. Then when I tried to open a page, I got an error message: Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in ............ If it doesn't recognise the function, presumably that means I don't have the ...

Hi Ikeo I think you may be on to something! :) display_errors is "off". There is no mySQL section in the report. At this point I got excited, opened up php.ini and changed display_errors to "on". I ran phpinfo again and it still said display_errors is "off". :( Presumably I was changing the wrong ...

Tony Don't apologise for the questions. I appreciate your assistance for someone who is thrashing around way out of his depth. The reason for my hosting company coming into the equation is because I am (was?) trying to see the MySQL database on the server, while using Apache and PHP on my local ...

Clook.net. Stupid name: brilliant company. :D I use their UK company but they have a US leg as well. If that's as good as the people I deal with, you just can't go wrong. They are totally upfront and honest about everything. Have a look at http://www.clook.info/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=22 to see ...

I was having problems with "Preview" in Rapid PHP, but I think I have traced it to Apache/PHP rather Rapid PHP itself. In order to cut out some variables I got out of Rapid PHP and just tried to open http://localhost/*.php in a browser. I found that PHP pages open OK except when there is a MySQL ...

You're right. This thread has reached a natural break and I'll transfer to Self Help to continue the topic.

Well, I tracked down the problem: Preview doesn't work if the page starts with an "include" that points to a mysql_connect file. Most of my pages have that, so it appeared that it didn't work at all when I tested it. When I happened to test with a file that has no mysql connection, it was fine. So ...

Obviously I'm not the only one who has had problems with the configuring "Preview". However, not of the previous threads seems to have produced the answer to my problem, even though the problem seems the same. I have Apache and PHP installed on my machine. I have a couple of test files in C ...