Hello Apache Friends,
I am new to Apache (and DW and web development) and I'm using Dreamweaver CS5 on Windows 7 (64-bit) home edition. I have been following David Powers' instructions from the Adobe web site as well as his book, "Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 with PHP: Training from the Source." Unfortunately, after a month or so of trying to get it to work, it's still driving me nuts!
I have uninstalled Apache 1.7.4 and reinstalled it (several times). At first, I had trouble getting Apache and MySQL to start and getting Dreamweaver to render the PHP pages from Virtualhost changes I made from David Powers' instructions. Lately, Apache starts fine and, the first time I opened up the Homepage (after the latest installation) in my Firefox 4.0.1 browser (http://localhost/xampp) it was fine. I then set up security for MySQL and Apache. After making changes to settings for Virtual hosting, I again opened up the Homepage in Firefox and all I get now is the German heading ("XAMPP furfor Windows") and the main window just has an exclamation mark without any other text. The browser tab reads: XAMPP <?include('.version')?>
I tried the new Control Panel (v. 3) and it worked fine. I also tried the old one and that works too--both indicate Apache and MySQL seem to be running fine.
The other issue I had before I started getting the German heading and the exclamation mark was I was unable to get the Configuration changes I made (per David Powers) to show up when I opened phpinfo(). The php.ini file still shows the changes I made (e.g., changing log_errors to Off, short_open_tag to On, the timezone to "America/Chicago" for central time), but the configuration page remains at the default settings (I did open the file via Notepad after right clicking "Run as Administrator" etc.).
The whole Virtual Hosting issue was my main problem, but now I'm stuck with these 2 problems before I can again troubleshoot the Virtual hosting problems.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions!!
Marty