.htaccess probs??? HELP

Terion

okay so I FINALLY! got php and apache installed and running on my local machine....I did all the tests and it is truly working! whew...so then I got all excited thinking I was going to be able to browse my pages locally.....WRONG...first I received a server error, so I removed the .htaccess file from the directory I was trying to browse, which got me a step along because I was then able to see the page...but now I'm back where I started because I still can not see any of my php working (which I know it does cuz It's working online on my site) WHAT'S GOING ON!! I'm about to pull my hair out....help help help!!

Thanks so much
Terion
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raymie

You do not actually say what problems you have when you try and execute a php page so it is impossible to really say what your problem is.

The most likely cause is that you have not installed PHP properly or not configured apache to know how to deal with PHP pages, if this is the case then viewing a php page should result in the code being visible (normally).

Terion

I finally got my php code to work (kind of) locally. My include tags are doing what they should , except one tag is calling itself 2x, I think? Here is the error code:

Error 404 - file not found
What does that mean ? - well exactly that ! the page you are looking http://localhost/eastwind_org/tagboard/tags.php?display=1¬ag=1/eastwind_org/tagboard/tagboard/tags.php?display=1¬ag=1[/url]) for does not exist

See in the address of the page it's looking for is for some reason appending the address at the end of itself....it doesn't do this online at www.eastwind.org

raymie

ok,

still not sure that I understand your problem but..

PHP is running and interpreting pages correctedly locally it sounds like.
It looks like a site configuration problem.

What I would suggest is that you look at the following issues.

What differences are there in the PHP config options (use a page that contains the command phpinfo(); to check that)
Are you perhaps using variables such as the document root in the code and the value is not set correctly locally?
Originally you mentioned that an .htaccess file was causing problems, what was that file trying to achieve?

I would suggest that if you want further help you will need to post some actual code examples not just a vague error message, but if posting code please remember to use the PHP code tags that the forum provides since that makes the code more readable.

Posting the contents of the original .htaccess file would also probably help.