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Local server is displaying index.php text

Postby gary hawkins » 16. October 2012 15:25

Hi all.

I have been trying to get my website, which runs fine on my hosts server, to run on my local server for updating.

It has taken me weeks and i am now at a point where i have to ask for help!

So, I copied my htdocs using filezilla. Installed Xampp. I used mysqlog to make a copy of my datbase which is set to localhost and appears in myphpadmin. I have apache running and tested PHP pages work.

In my config.db page I changed it to connect to my local Mysql database. I tested that page and it connected to server.

I can acces my htdocs but it shows them as a folder, when I click on the folder it reads the index.php page but just displays whats on it underneath the mysql connect. which is this

\n"; //breadcrumbs if ($page != 'home'){ $breadcrumbs = getBreadcrumbs($db, $page); echo "
"; echo stripslashes($breadcrumbs); echo '
'; } //include content if (file_exists("content/$page.inc")){ include ("content/$page.inc"); } else { include ("content/error.inc"); } echo "\n"; include ('includes/footer.inc'); //pages with redirects cannot have header included at beginning } else { if (file_exists("content/$page.inc")){ include ("content/$page.inc"); } else { include ("content/error.inc"); } include ('includes/footer.inc'); } ?>


If I open any other pages they do not full load, no images, products or basically anything thats in my database. Its all in my datbase though as I have checked the local one.

I would be so gratefull of some help.

Thanks in advance :?
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Re: Please help me!

Postby Altrea » 16. October 2012 17:27

Hi gary hawkins,

first: do you think, you have choosen a self speaking headline for your thread?
What should someone expect if he/she reads that headline?
99% of the threads here are requests for help. That is an unneeded information and don't tell anything about that, what you are reporting here.

gary hawkins wrote:I can acces my htdocs but it shows them as a folder

HOW do you access your htdocs? What does your browsers address bar show if you are in your htdocs?

And my second guess is: Do you use short_open_tag to begin your php files?

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Re: Please help me!

Postby gary hawkins » 16. October 2012 17:42

My apologies for the headline and thank you for pointing that out.

I access the htodocs through localhost/htdocssolo That is the folder i put in Xampp/htdocs


And my second guess is: Do you use short_open_tag to begin your php files?
Sorry I dont know what that means
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Re: Please help me!

Postby Altrea » 16. October 2012 17:51

gary hawkins wrote:
And my second guess is: Do you use short_open_tag to begin your php files?
Sorry I dont know what that means

Thats okay, but google knows:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.p ... t-open-tag
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Re: Please help me!

Postby JonB » 16. October 2012 17:57

Altrea is referring to the great PHP debate - To Short Open Tag or not, that is the question...

Google "short open tag php' and you will see its a hot topic.

GENERALLY its now considered better practice to not use Short Open Tags.
meaning no constructs like this:
<?
.... code
?>

Its a parameter in php.ini

short_open_tag = Off

If it is set to Off, then code that is delimited by the 'old' short open tags, will not be interpreted by the PHP handler...

http://perishablepress.com/php-short-open-tag/

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Re: Please help me!

Postby gary hawkins » 16. October 2012 18:19

That makes so much sense. The whole site is using <? ?>. When I added <?php to a page earlier it worked differently.

So now all I need to do is update the php.ini file.

Thanks guys. I will let you know how I get on.
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Re: Please help me!

Postby Altrea » 16. October 2012 18:24

gary hawkins wrote:So now all I need to do is update the php.ini file.

Or change your open tags to the much cleaner, self speaking, configuration independend version <?php, which is just a one time effort for you.

P.S.:
JonB wrote:Altrea is referring to the great PHP debate - To Short Open Tag or not, that is the question...

Well, since <?= is no longer effected by the short_open_tag setting (which is in heavy use by CMS for templating and views), i don't think it is a big discussion any more.
But before PHP 5.4 it was something like religious flamewar ^^
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Re: Please help me!

Postby gary hawkins » 16. October 2012 20:09

Ok so I have gone through the php.ini and turned short_open_tag on. I still get the directory and the index page is displaying text.

There are to many pages to add <?php into and some I tried like mod.functions.inc stopped anything displaying. I have pasted my db connect file and index, I am sure there is something wrong in them. Please could you take a look.

<?php
//DB details


define ("DB_TYPE", "mysql");
define ("DB_HOST", "localhost");
define ("DB_USERNAME", "root");
define ("DB_PASSWORD", "test123");
define ("DB_DATABASE", "solotest");

?>

index page

<?php


session_start();

error_reporting(0);

include ("system/config.db.inc");
include ("system/adodb5/adodb.inc");
include ("system/mod.functions.inc");

// create DB connection
$db = &ADONewConnection(DB_TYPE);
$db ->NConnect(DB_HOST, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD, DB_DATABASE);

//$db_type = "mysql";
//$db_host = "localhost";
//$db_username = "root";
//$db_password = "test123";
//$db_database = "solotest";

//@mysql_connect ("$db_host","$db_username","$db_password","$db_database") or die ("Could not connect to mysql");
//@mysql_select_db ("$db_database") or die ("No Database");

//get page to include
if (isset($_GET['p'])){
$page = $_GET['p'];
} else {
$page = 'home';
}

//check to ensure user is logged in to gain access to following pages.
if (($page == 'member_area')||($page == 'edit_registered')||($page == 'change_password')||($page == 'stack_admin')||($page == 'custom_stack')){

if (!isset($_SESSION['customer_id'])){
//if not logged in do not allow access this page
//echo 'Not logged in';
header("location: ?p=no_access&pageFrom=$page");
}
}


//include header etc. for pages that have no redirects
if (($page != 'login')&&($page != 'register')&&($page != 'edit_registered')&&($page != 'change_password')&&($page != 'checkout')&&($page != 'custom_stack')){
include ('includes/header.inc');
echo "<div id=\"main\">\n";

//breadcrumbs
if ($page != 'home'){
$breadcrumbs = getBreadcrumbs($db, $page);
echo "<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">";
echo stripslashes($breadcrumbs);
echo '</div>';
}

//include content
if (file_exists("content/$page.inc")){
include ("content/$page.inc");
} else {
include ("content/error.inc");
}

echo "</div>\n";
include ('includes/footer.inc');

//pages with redirects cannot have header included at beginning
} else {

if (file_exists("content/$page.inc")){
include ("content/$page.inc");
} else {
include ("content/error.inc");
}
include ('includes/footer.inc');
}

?>
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Re: Local server is displaying index.php text

Postby Altrea » 16. October 2012 21:18

The first thing to debug is always display the messages.

So you should change
Code: Select all
error_reporting(0);


to
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error_reporting(-1);
ini_set('display_errors' , 1);


You are using AdoDB. Do you have checked if this module version is compatible with PHP 5.4?
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Re: Local server is displaying index.php text

Postby gary hawkins » 16. October 2012 21:46

Thank you for your time on this Altrea.

How would I find out what AdoDb version I am using?
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Re: Local server is displaying index.php text

Postby Altrea » 16. October 2012 22:01

gary hawkins wrote:How would I find out what AdoDb version I am using?

Take a look into your adodb5 folder. There should be a docs folder with documentations. They should have the version number on the top of the page.

btw: are you shure adodb.inc is the correct and full filename?
In the current package the file has a .php extension at the end.
But if this is an issue you should get php messages after enabling them.

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Re: Local server is displaying index.php text

Postby gary hawkins » 16. October 2012 23:52

Excellent work! Error report showed this

Warning: include(system/adodb5/adodb.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\htdocssolo\htdocs\index.php on line 20

Warning: include(): Failed opening 'system/adodb5/adodb.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\htdocssolo\htdocs\index.php on line 20

Now I am sorry my friend but this still leaves me clueless. I have found the xampp\php\pear file but what should I do with it?
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Re: Local server is displaying index.php text

Postby Altrea » 17. October 2012 05:24

gary hawkins wrote:Now I am sorry my friend but this still leaves me clueless. I have found the xampp\php\pear file but what should I do with it?

Nothing, that information is just giving to you, because the PEAR directory is in the php include path.

by far more important is the first message:
Warning: include(system/adodb5/adodb.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\htdocssolo\htdocs\index.php on line 20

Take a look into your system/adodb5/ folder and search for the correct filename. If i should guess it will be adodb.inc.php.
Your include() command needs to be corrected, thats for true.
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Re: Local server is displaying index.php text

Postby gary hawkins » 17. October 2012 12:55

Good afternoon

Today I have made progress. i have manged to get my website running but still with errors. I put <?php everywhere I could find it to get it running to a point but it still dosnt find my products. The errors are saying these two line are wrong

elseif($_GET['p']=='product_details' && isset($_GET['prod_id']) ){
$prod_details = getProduct($db, $_GET['prod_id']);
$title=$prod_details[1];

elseif($_GET['p']=='stack_details' && isset($_GET['stack_id']) ){
$stack_details = getStack($db, $_GET['stack_id']);
$title=$stack_details[0];
}

To make sure I hadnt missed any short open tags I put in a php_flag short_open_tag on into my htaccess file and now I get this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' on several lines and no website displayed. Is there something in php.ini I need to change?

The confusing thing is my website runs like a dream on the hosts server. I am having to change a lot to get it working locally?
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Re: Local server is displaying index.php text

Postby Altrea » 17. October 2012 15:23

gary hawkins wrote:now I get this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' on several lines and no website displayed.

I can't say anything about that without knowing the full exact error message(s) and knowing your script (at least the full if() elseif control block).

gary hawkins wrote:Is there something in php.ini I need to change?

No. Parse error is parse error.

gary hawkins wrote:I am having to change a lot to get it working locally?

Maybe. That all depends of the apache/php/mysql/os version your live server is using and how different they are compared to your local stack and how different the components are configurated.

best wishes,
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