WampServer

I have successfully installed WAMP, but I can't seem to access files in the www folder. I can access [localhost]. But when I try to access [localhost], I get a 404 page not found error message. For that matter, when I try to access anything below [localhost], I get the 404 message.

Do I need to configure apache or php beyond the initial installation?

Okay, I need to update my post above:

I can access any directory EXCEPT [localhost]. Is this a reserved directory name or something?

Hmm, there's something going on with the way my posts are being displayed...

I am having trouble accessing "localhost/projectName/htdocs" , but I can access any other directory under localhost.

does c:/wamp/www/projectName/htdocs exists?

Steven Martin
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PampServer.com - [pampserver.com]

Yes, it exists. I get a 404 error when I try to access the directory link provided by localhost/projectName. Other folders are accessed without error.

wat is the project? it may use a .htaccess to deny access

Steven Martin
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PampServer.com - [pampserver.com]

Yes, the folder does contain an .htaccess file. I suppose I need to delete that file to get WAMP to work correctly. I'll report back if there are any further issues. Thanks for the help!

well its there to keep it secure... but it must be set up wrong. paste up contents of file if u want

Steven Martin
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PampServer.com - [pampserver.com]

Here's the contents of my .htaccess file (I added the bracketing < marks here for clarity):

<
Options -Indexes

AddHandler Extension_Type .html .htm .php3 .php4
Action Extension_Type /cgi-bin/php.dat
# Customized Error Handler
ErrorDocument 204 /error.htm?e=204
ErrorDocument 301 /error.htm?e=301
ErrorDocument 302 /error.htm?e=302
ErrorDocument 400 /error.htm?e=400
ErrorDocument 401 /error.htm?e=401
ErrorDocument 403 /error.htm?e=403
ErrorDocument 404 /error.htm?e=404
ErrorDocument 500 /error.htm?e=500
ErrorDocument 501 /error.htm?e=501
ErrorDocument 502 /error.htm?e=502
ErrorDocument 503 /error.htm?e=503
<

BTW, is there a good resource on how to configure the .htaccess file?

u probably need to jsut add .php to

AddHandler Extension_Type .html .htm .php3 .php4

so it wud be

AddHandler Extension_Type .html .htm .php3 .php4 .php











apache has probably th ebest information >>[httpd.apache.org]

Steven Martin
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PampServer.com - [pampserver.com]

I added .php to the .htaccess file as you advised, but I still get error 404! I then changed the name of the .htaccess file to "a.htaccess" and I CAN access the htdocs folder, but my php scripts don't work.

The site had been working fine on a remote server at Network Solutions, so I figure there's some configuration issue with the way WAMP handles the .htaccess file. Any further suggestions?

well it has to be called ".htaccess"


ErrorDocument 204 /error.htm?e=204
ErrorDocument 301 /error.htm?e=301
ErrorDocument 302 /error.htm?e=302
ErrorDocument 400 /error.htm?e=400
ErrorDocument 401 /error.htm?e=401
ErrorDocument 403 /error.htm?e=403
ErrorDocument 404 /error.htm?e=404
ErrorDocument 500 /error.htm?e=500
ErrorDocument 501 /error.htm?e=501
ErrorDocument 502 /error.htm?e=502
ErrorDocument 503 /error.htm?e=503

all of this is just for custom error pages.. i presume u dont have a error.htm ?

Steven Martin
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PampServer.com - [pampserver.com]

Yes, I omitted the .htaccess file just to help troubleshoot whether that file was causing the error in opening the htdocs folder. I understand that to work, it must be called ".htaccess"

Yes, I do have an error.htm file in htdocs. My htm files require a php file located in a cgi-bin folder in order to produce my navigation buttons. If I omit the .htaccess file, my htm pages can be accessed, but the navigation links are not there, meaning that the required php file is not being accessed. If I include the .htaccess file, then I can't open the htdocs folder at all.

where is ur htdocs folder? this folder doesntl usualy exist or the cgi bin.. i know on production servers theses are in the public folder so possibly u need to replicate this layout exactly to that or the production server . is ur cgi bin in ur www folder?

Steven Martin
stevenmartin99@gmail.com
stevenmartin99@hotmail.com
PampServer.com - [pampserver.com]

Reading Apache's directive info, maybe the issue is with the .htaccess line:

Action Extension_Type /cgi-bin/php.dat

If the cgi-bin folder's URL is in the same directory as htdocs, shouldn't the directive read:

Action Extension_Type ../cgi-bin/php.dat, so that apache knows to look one level up for the cgi-bin folder?

Dster

The directory map is:

wamp -> www -> projectName -> htdocs, cgi-bin

index.htm (and all the other htm files/folders) and some php scripts are located in the htdocs directory. Certain php scripts that I want to remain inaccessible by users are located in the cgi-bin folder.

In this way, the htdocs folder is my root directory, and the cgi-bin folder is "outside" htdocs. This is the way Network Solutions has it set up. They direct all www.website.com requests to my htdocs folder.

I would like to keep this path the same, since my scripts all refer to those paths. I don't want to have to change all the scripts to move from authoring to production.

Dster

Okay, I figure the htaccess file is simply too complicated at this point-- besides, it works okay on my production server, and all I want to do here is develop locally, so I deleted the htaccess file.

I am now having a problem getting embedded php code to be read. Php scripts run only when they are called directly via localhost/projectName/htdocs/something.php, but do not run if the php code is within an html page such as:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"[www.w3.org];
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Php Test</title>
</head>

<?php
print "Hello World!";
?>


<body>
</body>
</html>

Is there a configuration issue that needs to be addressed to get php code within an html page to work?

Dster

the standard procedure is to name the file .php this will be parsed by php engine

if you want html files to parse throught the engine then u need to add it in the apache config. (this is not recommend so much tho because it will slow down pages that dont have php in them)

open C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.8\conf\httpd.conf

find


AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3

and add

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

Steven Martin
stevenmartin99@gmail.com
stevenmartin99@hotmail.com
PampServer.com - [pampserver.com]

Thank you very much! This will help speed up my website! Thanks again!

Dster

no problem ur welcome

Steven Martin
stevenmartin99@gmail.com
stevenmartin99@hotmail.com
PampServer.com - [pampserver.com]