Assist plaese with PHP testing in Dreamweaver CS4

Question

Dear Friends,
I’m completely new in Dreamweaver. I’ve just installed in my windowsXP PHP, MySQL and Apache. I’m trying to test PHP in Dreamweaver CS4. Here what I did but still could not see result in browser view.
In site definition box,
in local info:
site name: PHP test
local root folder: C:\wamp\www\
HTTP address: http://localhost/PHPTest.php/
In testing server:
            Server model: PHP My SQL
            Access: Local/Network
            Testing server folder: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\
            URL Prefix: http://localhost/PHPTest.php/
Inside the body script in code view I inserted the following:
<?php
            echo "This is a PHP line";
            phpinfo();
?>
When I try to see it in browser it shows: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
Please tell me what I did wrong please.
Thanks,
Qartveli

Answer 1

some clues to get you started:
1. when developing on a local server, make sure that the testing server folder is equal to the local root folder -- means that it´s "C:\wamp\www\" in both cases, otherwise your local server will try to load the current page from the directory "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot" where this page physically doesn´t exist, and that´s why you´re getting the "cannot display the webpage" error message.
2.
URL Prefix: http://localhost/PHPTest.php/
never specify a certain page name in here -- http://localhost/ is all you need for the URL prefix, and the name of the to-be-previewed page will be appended automatically when going to Preview mode..
Cheers,
Günter