Apache & PHP stuff - Help!!!

[Daz wilde]

I have put apache onto my pc but want to view my php files on my apache localserver. Does anyone know how to do this? Just saves time instead of up loading the files!

 

[johns_ar]

stating the mentally obvious here but have you tried notepad or wordpad?

Are you hosting a site from your PC?

 

[Daz wilde]

No im not hosting a site, its for when im designing them i have to upload the php files to test them, where as if i had a local server running on my pc i could just test them without uploading them.

 

[johns_ar]

well use wordpad notepad to check em, wordpad's probs better actually as it wont screw all the lines up

in fact download something called notepad++ (google for it) does the job nicely, got the line numbers in and stuff

 

[Tigger]

You need to install php as well and configure apache to recognise it,

Installation differers depending on whether your using apache 1.3 or apache 2 and php4 or php5. Either have a look on google under 'installing php on apache' or let me know what versions your using and I'll post a few instructions.