WampServer

Hi everyone

I'm new to PHP and Wamp and need some help please.

I installed the latest version of Wampserver and I can the see 'http://localhost page' ok. I am following a PHP tutorial and was advised to create a php file via notepad, which I did save as variables.php and saved in the C:/wamp/www folder.

When I type in my browser 'http://localhost/variables.php' it comes up with an error "Not Found, The requested URL /variables.php was not found on this server."

I am also concerned that when I saved my variables.php file that it looks different to the other files in the www folder as in the folder type column it says type of file 'text', even though the file extension is .php.

Any advice would be appreciated

Jenna



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/30/2011 12:40PM by Jenna.

Hi Jenna,

This is a common issue.

Simple answer > DONT USE NOTEPAD

use Notepad++ , you can download it for free.




if you really wanna use notepad then you should make the following change to your pc.

start>control panel> folder option> view(tab) > untick "Hide extentsions for known filetypes"

now you will see that your file does infact habe a .php.txt extentsion and you xan right click it and rename it to .php only.

When using notepad in future click > save as> change the file type to "ALL FILES"

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

Hooray that fixed it!

Thanks and I won't use notepad from now on.

Jenna

Hi Jenna,

I like Notepad2, another free editor download.

[www.flos-freeware.ch]

Nige M
Happy new year for 2012