I just bought my first mac and I develop in PHP. I run MAMP to serve my php files. You have to save files to Applications/MAMP/htdocs to be able to serve a file. I would rather have one file in the root directory that sends all the files I create to htdocs so that I can access them easier in emacs and such from the command line. How could I do this?
You should check httpd.conf of MAMP. You can change the root folder of you WWW there. Look for the http.conf file in the Apache directory, and then look for htdocs and change that path.
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Attempting to get LAMP working on my 32-bit Ubuntu 18.04 machine. I believe the set-up is close to correct. I have all Apache2, mysql, and PHP software installed. I have an index.php file located in folder /var/www/bookcorner directory which shows up as it should if I enter localhost/index.php in the browser address bar. This file may be edited in nano while saving the changes. However, I cannot use my editor Notepadqq (or presumably others) to edit the file.
Going through the file manager, I can select the file and open it in Notepadqq, but I cannot save it. I get the error, "folder does not exist". If I try a 'Save As' with Notepadqq, I do not see any folders past /var in the directory structure, though they obviously exist. The www folder and subfolders do not show up in Notepadqq.
There are three folders under /var/www which are
bookcorner
html
michaelsbookcorner.com
I have ownership of all of these folders
michaelsbookcorner.com is a live site at Infinityfree.net
I somehow got Apache2 to point to bookcorner for now which is fine. Eventually I would like to select between different websites but I only have one for now existing in another directory. I wish to begin utilizing LAMP rather than uploading PHP files to my hosting site all the time.
What settings/permissions/etc could I have missed here in order to get this working properly?
I have saved a PHP file to my Applications/XAMMP/htdocs directory and I want to run it in a browser.
I have used all sorts of url combinations including:
http://localhost/xammp/htdocs/HelloWord.php
http://localhost/xammp/HelloWord.php
amongst others and I cannot find the right url.
I am using XAMPP on a Mac Majove.
If you installed the XAMPP VM version, then you can probably access it via http://192.168.64.2/HelloWord.php (check the General tab in the XAMPP app for the IP address)
If you installed the native version, then I guess it is
http://localhost/HelloWord.php
The htdocs/ folder is the document root. Its content is served under the server address. Neither the xampp nor the htdocs folder will be part of the URL. The paths are relative to the document root, and you shouldn't be able to access parent directories above htdocs/ (although server-side code such as PHP has access to the file system and may work with files outside of the document root).
First of all, expecting the php file to have information that can be visualized in a web browser, inside xampp if you have the .php file in the htdocs folder you should be able to visualize it like this:
http://localhost/HelloWord.php
Found it by trial and error, quite different from what I took from various instructions on line:
http://localhost/HelloWord.php
XAMPP's default root should be "htdocs" or "www". Put your PHP files into those folder and try again.
if it is not work, find the configuration of Apache and PHP in XAMPP folder.
I have my xampp installed and running sites from the htdocs folder. I want to create a website directory in a different location and run the files online from there.
I know I can do this somehow using both Virtual Host settings and changing my hosts file in System32.
I want to change my URL from localhost/websites/mysite/ to just mysite/
Can anyone offer assistance, thank you
Locate httpd.conf file on your local XAMPP install:
C:\xampp\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf
Edit the “DocumentRoot” line to the location of the remote \htdocs folder.
Example:
“C:/xampp/xampp/htdocs” to “C:/Users/Ann/Documents/My Dropbox/Dev/Xampp/xampp/htdocs”
Edit the “Directory” tag to the same remote location you set for DocumentRoot.
“C:/Users/Ann/Documents/My Dropbox/Dev/Xampp/xampp/htdocs”
Save the file and restart your local Apache server.
Navigate to your "localhost” in your browser and you should see the remote web site files.
You don't have to configure anything and then reconfigure ...
What I do is the following:
I have a simple PHP file in htdocs folder, named 'PHPexec.php', which accepts files from anywhere and it runs them as 'include' files. Example: Suppose you want to run "D:\PHPs\xxx.php'. You run http://localhost/PHPexec.php?f=D:\PHPs\xxx.php. PHPexec.php will receive the pathfile as a $_GET variable and run it as an 'include' file:
$file = $_GET['f']; // After checking if it is set etc.
include $file;
Simple as that. From the moment you create your 'PHPexec.php', you have just to run http://localhost/PHPexec.php?f={PHP_file}. Your PHP file will be run as if it were stored in localhost! No configurations and re-configurations ...
(You can configure your 'PHPexec.php' to also accept variables to pass to the PHP file, etc.)
I'm using Apache 2 in Linux mint and I don't know where to store my files and projects. if I store it in var/www it is not accessible for me, I have to use command as super user. Are there any way to solve my problem?
- If I want to store in my home folder, what should I type in the address bar if I want to run my file?
- Are there any other good solution than these? (such as change the accessible to folder /var, or change the Root_Url of apache ...)
The easiest way to solve this provlem is by typing the following line in terminal:
sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www
and then enter your password. And now you are done. You can store all the PHP files in /var/www
You have to do a chmod, you can have more information in your terminal with comand man chmod to set the rights to write in that folder or else point the web-server elsewhere (the setting is in the https.conf file)
There is different solutions:
create a symlink from /var/www/link to your projet and set your project
create a virtualhost with the DocumentRoot to point to your project: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/examples.html
in both cases your project must have gives permissions to the apache user (www-data?) to read/execute you project
You need to active the user_dir mod of apache and then run the content from your home folder.
To run a file in your hole directory you should go to localhost/~youruser/script.php of course after enabling user_dir
Everything depends on the use.
If you are looking for a configuration for a development server that is accessible only from limited host (such as localhost):
You can configure Apache (/etc/apache2/apache2.conf) to run with your user/group.
User myuser
Group mygroup
Store all your project in your user_dir (/home/myuser/projects/...)
Create a virtual host for any of your projects
All files generated by your server will be accessible to you and vice versa
One way to accomplish this is to edit the default virtualhost supplied with Apache 2. In Linux Mint 14 its configuration file is located at:
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
This directory should hold symlinks for all active sites, for me the default is named 000-default.
Change the lines with "DocumentRoot" and "Directory" to point wherever you like. The server should have read only privileges by default. If you are working on file manipulation then it will need permission to read and write files.
Once this is set, restart the server ("sudo service apache2 restart") and type localhost in your browser to access the directory you've set above.
For more advanced configs have a look at:
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/853
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/527
I installed wamp stack and then installed netbeans ide. The port number for apache is 100.
Created one PHP project at
C:\Users\aaa\Documents\NetBeansProjects\PhpProject2
and project URL http://localhost:100/PhpProject2/
When I click on run, I see the message "http://localhost:100/PhpProject2/index.php URL not found on the server".
What else I need to do to connect http://localhost:100/PhpProject2/index.php to C:\Users\aaa\Documents\NetBeansProjects\PhpProject2?
Please help.
You need to configure Apache's webroot to be C:\Users\aaa\Documents\NetBeansProjects (search for DocumentRoot in the file httpd.conf).
Or you can move/copy your files to the existing webroot, which may be something like c:\wwwroot.
Apache doesn't just magically know where you put your website files, and setting the URL inside NetBeans doesn't actually configure the webserver (I think it's just so that auto-generated links are right).
If you go to http://localhost:100/, what do you see? What is your web root? The folder needs to be in your web root, and I would be surprised if it is C:\Users\aaa\Documents\
I did a Google search for "wamp stack" and found a product by Bitnami... if this is the one you are using, the default web root is C:\Program Files\BitNami WAMP Stack\apache2\htdocs\. If that is indeed the case, then you'd need to move the NetBeansProjects folder to there. (source: http://bitnami.org/files/stacks/wampstack/5.3.6-0/wampstack.pdf page 7)
You need to look into aliasing. That will let you more or less assign directories in the url path to arbitrary directories on your file system.
You have to move your files to your root folder of the Apache installation (htdocs). You should refer to your WAMP installation for where that is located. Personally, I like to use XXAMP for installation.
Netbeans is just an IDE, it doesn't serve the files.