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