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I installed WAMP about one month ago, and just had my first occasion to try and use mySQL. My first attempts at using the monitor (command window) were futile, despite all attempts to 'fix' the password in the 'ini' and config files. After reading a posting in this forum, I discovered the GUI interface available through 'phpMyAdmin'. After establishing a user account for myself, I was successful
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I have notepad, it's just that Windows does funky things, forcing you to use what THEY want you to use. I finally fixed the settings so that any file with an extension of .html or .php would open with notepad and not Word. Now when I create a new file of these types, they open with notepad and Word doesn't get a chance to scramble them. All php and html files I create now seem to behaving as
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I got my wampserver back up and running. I tried your file aaa.php and an example in the book I am learning php from called testing.php which calls the phpinfo function. Both work as expected. As a note, the book I am using is 'Begining PHP 5.3' by Matt Doyle The first example is a file called testing.html which has html code (nothing to do with php). This is suppose to verify that Apache i
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At the moment my wampserver seems to be down. Earlier, while waiting for a reply, I found a reference to doc_root in php.ini (as opposed to DocumentRoot) which I edited to the aforemention www directory. That seems to have broken the wamp. Will get back to you when I have it fixed.
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The same thing as testing.html, it opens the file as if I were editing it.
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Per your suggestion to change the filename to testing.php.
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I tried renaming to testing.php, exactly the results.
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I found httpd.conf and checked DocumentRoot. It was an EXACT match for what I expected for the root directory. What do I do now? I also tried typing into my browser just 'localhost' that gave me the wampserver homepage
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From the wampserver menu I successfully run 'localhost' & 'phpmyadmin'. As mentioned above my wamp directory is C:/program files/wamp. My root directory should be C:/program files/wamp/www I put my test script 'testing.html' in C:/program files/wamp/www According to the book that I am learning about php, etc from, typing into my browser should run that script. Instead
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I finally figured it out!! It was a bit convoluted but I went to the file, changed ownership of the file (since I am the admin, I can do that) and successfully edited the file. I then ran wampmanger, got the green light and tried both localhost and phpadmin and both look like they are working. Thanks
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Forgive my stupidity, but I haven't had to run a cmd window for at least 10 years. Even though I AM the administrator, I can't figure out how to run any editor (such as Notepad) as admin. Many years ago you could log in as admin but that feature seems to have disappeared. I have had an occasion when a particular action required admin privledges and when prompted in this way I just acknowledged th
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I read point #1 "1. apache gives a 403 Forbidden error. Symptom: Look at Apache Access log ( from Wamp manager link ) if it is showing the IP address as ::1 instead of 127.0.0.1 this is the solution. Problem is that the file on Vista and W7 has a reference to IPV6 localhost as follows :- ::1 localhost FIX: If you remove that entry and restart the DNS Client service it will be
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I downloaded wamp install from . I installed it in C:/program files/wamp. Upon examining that folder I find a number of files including wampmanger.exe. I also have a folder called .....www in which I find index.php and testmysql.php. I have the green icon in the task manager. When I click on localhost or phpmyadmin, I get an error message that I don't have permission to access this server. I
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