page can not be displayed

lisa33

Hey guys i know the basics to dreamweaver but im new to php. Yesterday I had went onto dreamweaver and created a new php page this was my first time doing this i usually use html page. So when I clicked on the world to view in explorer it started asking me all these questions like local server etc etc....i pretty much just guessed on it. When I previewed my page it sayed this page cannot be displayed. When i use an html page and click to view it in explorer it shows me my page 123. Now today I tried using a new html page and when i clicked to view it in explorer a pop up box said "update copy on testing server? This will update the file on testing server. This might affect others working on the file. YES NO" when i click yes a new box appears and says "dependent files... include dependent files? YES NO CANCEL" when i click yes it brings to my preview pg which says can not be displayed. This happens also when i just click no on first pop up box. what am i doing wrong and how can i fix this?

Rodney_H_

Dreamweaver and your browser alone are not enough to display your php scripts correctly.

If you are running a PC, you will have to download PHP and set up your box to run IIS, or you can download a pre-fab series of applications like wampserver(.com) to set up PHP and a server for you to run your tests on.

After you install wampserver, you will have to create sites via dreamweaver differently, too.

There will be THREE things you need to set up:

1) Local site, where your files exist on your computer. (They will now have to be located withing the www directory inside the WAMP folder.)

2) Your remote site/FTP info

3) Your testing server info (a way to test your files on your computer using localhost as the server address)

So, lets say you install WAMP inside your C: drive.

And then you create a site within the "www" directory called "test"

You will have to define your testing server address as:

http://localhost/wamp/test

(or is it http://localhost/test It is one of these...)

You will have to specify your test server as being PHP/MySQL and that you are running it on a "local network"

John_B_

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