Help me plz

[SweetAmona]

Hi everyone,
I am working on my graduating project this semester using PHP and unfortunately I am a new user of PHP 🙁 I am facing many problems while doing the project and I need help so, I hope that you help me to learn more about PHP.

The first thing that I want to know is, can I run my application without connecting to the net? I knew that to run a PHP application I should write localhost/(the name of the file.php) in the Internet Explorer but it doesn't work 🙁 everytime I want to run an application I must connect to the net, what do I have to do to run without connecting? Can anyone help me plz?

Thanks

Sweet Amona

🙁

[tomhath]

You need a web server running on your computer (localhost). Either Apache or Microsoft's IIS will work, both are easy to install but you have to take a little time to read the instructions. IIS comes with Windows so it's on your installation disks. Apache is here http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

[SweetAmona]

Hi tomhath,

Thank you for replying.. I installed Apache but it also doesn't work. I knew that when I want to run the application the apache must be running but I don't know what is the problem..

🙁

[coditoergosum]

You will also need to have php "installed" for apache to parse php documents. You can get the files from here: http://www.php.net/downloads.php.

Is apache running correctly on your machine? What do you get if you goto http://localhost/? If apache is installed correctly, and you should get a page that says some stuff about apache itself.

Hope this helps.

[nemonoman]

I think I had the same problem:

Installed Apache and PHP. All seemed to work OK, but whenever I tried to call up localhost/somefile.php on my browser, Windows tried to connect to the internet. Isn't this the problem you describe?

Here's what to do:

Go to your internet settings from the control panel or from IE: Tools: Internet Options...

Click the CONNECTIONS tab.

Click the LAN SETTINGS button.

On the Lan Settings click the Use A Proxy Server Option button.

For the address enter 127.0.0.1

Click the Bypass Proxy server for local connections option

[SweetAmona]

Hi guys,

I did what you said but nothing works.. I don't know what is the problem..

By the way nemonoman, I did what you said but nothing happen and the problem is that it doesn't work anymore also if I connect to the net, I always get this message "The page cannot be displayed".. What do you think is the problem?? 😕

[Senate]

Proxy = evil.. you should not have to do that at all.

Make sure you have installed apache and PHP correctly. It would involve installing the Apache program, then editing HTTPD.CONF and adding some lines to it to point to PHP.

Start apache.. by going to Start >> Programs >> Apache >> Start Service (or something similar depending what version and how you set it up)

A DOS window should open saying "running apache.." Leave it open! This window has to stay open for your localhost to work.

Now in your apache/htdocs/ directory, put your PHP file.

Now open iexplore and go to localhost/yourfile.php

If you still can't get it working.. uninstall Apache, and PHP.. and go to this site:

http://php.e-novative.de/ephp_download.php

and download ePHP.zip.. unzip, and install. It will automatically install Apache, PHP, Mysql, etc and get it all running for you. Read the readme.txt for more info.

[coditoergosum]

I agree that you shouldn't have to use those proxy settings. If apache is configured correctly, you should be able to go to localhost and have it pull something up. As far as starting apache, you don't need to leave the dos prompt open. This might be different on win98/me. If you're running 2000 or XP, you should be able to start it, and then close everything and it'll run in the background.

The easiest way to stop/start apache is to go to a regular command prompt, start>run>cmd (I have a shortcut to it in my quicklaunch bar), and then type "net stop apache" or "net start apache", without the quotes of course. The advantage of this is, if there's a problem it will give you an error message... which is sometimes cryptic, but will at least tell you that there's a problem... usually the problem lies in the httpd.conf file.

[procoder]

type this in and see if it works

http://127.0.0.1/

[SweetAmona]

Hi everyone,

I just wanna tell you that at last the problem was solved 🙂 I did everything you said to me and thank god it works..

Thanks alot guys.. 😉