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by **dr-tbird** » 21. October 2010 18:38

Reinstalled, rebooted...same problem. Nothing is showing in php.

Ironically it was working about two weeks ago and then stopped. I've made no other changes to my system between then and now. Not so much as installing a game or utility. Nothing.

by **Altrea** » 21. October 2010 18:40

One step after another.

Can you start your Apache in the control panel? is there a green running label?

by **dr-tbird** » 21. October 2010 18:41

Both apache and mysql are running

by **Altrea** » 21. October 2010 18:44

Thats good.

Start your browser and type in http://localhost/
Does the XAMPP Administration Page start correctly? Can you use the XAMPP example scripts in there?

by **dr-tbird** » 21. October 2010 18:49

I get the index page from XAMPP and can view the info pages easily. Sample scripts are running.

by **Altrea** » 21. October 2010 18:51

Okay.
That shows that PHP is running and get parsed without errors.

Where do you save your php files for your xampp?
And how do you open them in the browser?

by **dr-tbird** » 21. October 2010 18:54

They are in subfolders in htdocs
All my files have a php extension
I tried one on the root of htdocs and cannot view the php. The html is fine:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title> testing </title>
</head>
<body>
HTML here. No biggie.

<?php

echo "This is a test of php.";

?>

</body>
</html>

by **Altrea** » 21. October 2010 18:55

We are getting close.

Altrea wrote:how do you open them in the browser?

by **dr-tbird** » 21. October 2010 18:56

Either dragging to the window (I use Firefox, btw) or right clicking them.

by **Altrea** » 21. October 2010 18:59

And exactly here is the problem

PHP had to be requested through the Webserver to get parsed by the php parser.
localhost is the alias for your own computer. And Apache knows, that requests goes directly to the htdocs folder.

So, if you have a file C:\xampp\htdocs\subfolder\test.php, the correct url is http://localhost/subfolder/test.php

You can't open your files directly in the Browser. That can't work with php

by **dr-tbird** » 21. October 2010 19:08

Thank you so much! I feel so silly. :oops:

I truly appreciate your help on this and promise to "pay it forward" when I am in the position of helping others.

by **Altrea** » 21. October 2010 19:09

I'm glad that your problem could be solved

Have fun with XAMPP and PHP and don't get too frustrated :wink:

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