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Topic: installing apache

[cass27]

glsmith said:

[glsmith]

then obviously that will not work.

Try localhost as James suggested. That should work, or http://127.0.0.1 and http://127.0.0.1 which is same as localhost.

If you want your server to answer to a domain then you will have to point a DNS record to your computer.

see
http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/domain-name.html
http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/DNS.html

actually wouldn't hurt you to look over much of that site.
forums are dead and info is old, but most still applies.

[cass27]

Right I think part of the problem was this. I had not configured Dreamweaver to work with apache properly.

As I say the server appears to be working. It can find the localhost but it cannot find the page. I therefore think its the last part of the integration with Apache and Php. The tutorial says this:

[color=darkred]THIS MUST BE ACCOMPLISHED (see note below): Add the folder that you put the PHP files into in the PATH ENVIRONMENT (System Properties | Advanced | Environment Variables | System variables | Path).

I now understand I am adding this information through the control panel.

But I am unsure how to add it. I have reached the window with system Variables in. There is one line named path. It looks like this:

Path C:\CFusionMX7\verity\k2\_nti40\bin;C:...

Should i add to this by placing C:\PHP\; at the beginning or should i add a new variable called path like this:

C:\php5;%SystemRoot%\system32;.....

thanks for your time

cass27

C:\php5;%SystemRoot%\system32;.....



C:\php5;%SystemRoot%\system32;.....



Do I create a new path like this

As I say i dont understand this. this will no doubt sound really stupid but where is the path environment?