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Re: PHP Runs In WinXP Command Window But Not In Browser [message #173534 is a reply to message #173442] Mon, 18 April 2011 16:05 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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On Apr 13, 6:46 am, crankypuss <n...@email.thanks> wrote:
> Peter Lauren <peterdlau...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 8, 8:02 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>> On 4/8/2011 7:55 PM, Peter Lauren wrote:
>
>>>> On Apr 8, 2:01 pm, Jerry Stuckle<jstuck...@attglobal.net>  wrote:
>>>> > On 4/8/2011 1:45 PM, Peter Lauren wrote:
>
>>>> >> On Apr 8, 8:04 am, "Mr. B-o-B"<mr.chew.b...@gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>> >>> Peter Lauren cried from the depths of the abyss...
>
>>>> >>>> I just noticed that I do have the Wampserver icon on the quick launch
>>>> >>>> part of the task bar.  I do actually get one menu, with the function
>>>> >>>> you mention, with a a single click of the left button and a smaller
>>>> >>>> menu, with the Exit function, with a single click of the right.  So it
>>>> >>>> looks like I'm in business.
>
>>>> >>> Fantastic.
>
>>>> >> Thanks.  But I'm still having a problem.  I left-click on the task bar
>>>> >> icon, click on Apache:httpd.conf, and a file opens in notepad.  In
>>>> >> admin. mode, I can edit the file and set
>>>> >> DocumentRoot "f:/SomeOther/Directory"
>>>> >> It still uses the .php file in c:\wamp\www
>
>>>> >> Thanks,
>>>> >> Peter.
>
>>>> > Did you stop and restart Apache after making the changes?  The
>>>> > configuration file is only run when Apache starts up, not on every request.
>
>>>> I fixed the Forbidden problem.  There was a part in the httpd.conf
>>>> file that said
>>>> # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
>
>>>> I fixed that and now it works.
>
>>>> Still haven't figured out how to get it to work w/o the /localhost/
>>>> part though
>
>>> Please read what everyone else has been telling you.
>
>>> YOU CAN'T.
>
>> Seems that everyone except Denis is telling me that but Denis seems to
>> be saying that using localhost will make the code only run on my
>> machine and not over the Internet.  Am I having some sort of mental
>> block here?
>
> Sounds that way to me.
>
> The PHP code you are running on an apache server (via wampserver in
> your case) has to receive http messages that describe a client
> request.  The incoming http messages are what kicks it off---apache
> just sits there listening until it receives a message that is "aimed"
> at your domain; when it receives an http request it runs your PHP code
> and it generates the response message in the form of an html page (or
> whatever it happens to generate, could be a download file for
> example).
>
> You can send the http requests to your server (that is running your
> PHP code) through basically anything that can establish a connection
> to it, for example another server could do it with a socket connection
> to your server's port-80.  But what most "users" use to send the
> requests is a browser.  A browser is mostly rendering engine, most of
> its code revolves around displaying the response messages your (or
> whatever) server generates.
>
> In order to tell the browser where to send the http requests that kick
> the process off, it has to know which of umptyzillion servers on the
> net to send the message to.  You tell it this by typing the server's
> address in the location bar.
>
> Since your server is running as "http:/localhost/" you need to type
> that in or your browser won't send the request to your server.  If you
> set up your server to run as "http:/z/ (for example) then that's what
> you'd need to type in, and you would do that setup within apache's
> configuration file http.conf and you would define the domain "z" using
> the windows "hosts" file.  Or you could use "http://127.0.0.1/" which
> amounts to the same thing but doesn't use symbolic notation.
>
> I'm not a javascript guy, but you *might* be able to run some
> front-end javascript application on your browser that would supply the
> domain name without your having to type it.  I understand that the
> Opera browser offers a lot more customization capability than most so
> you might want to look at it once you get things running.  For that
> matter you could download the source code for FireFox (I think it's
> available) and modify it to create your own browser.
>
> It isn't magic, it's a matter of grasping the context in which your
> PHP code is running.  Your "mental block" seems to be that you want
> the browser to know what server you mean, without telling it.
>
> --
> no aluminum siding offers today

Thank you very much for your replies. I read through your posts, and
the ensuing posts, very carefully and my interpretation is as
follows. The PHP code is running on a server. My PHP code is running
on my server. The server is identified by an IP address which is
"http:/localhost/" for the machine on which the call is made.
Therefore if someone types "http:/localhost/" on some other machine,
they will access the server on their machine if they have one
running. To access the server on my machine, they would need to use
my IP address instead. This is looked up through the Domain Name
System ( DNS). If I was using a web host, like GoDaddy, would it
assign a logical name name to the IP address like www.PetersWebSite.com
instead of 123.456.7.8? Since html is client side, I guess if I had
<a href="http://localhost/PHPTest.php">PHP Test</a> in my html code it
would try to access PHPTest.php on the client's computer instead of
mine. Does that seem right?

Thanks,
Peter.
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