Browsers won't open some php testing server files

Question

Running DW 8, OS 10.4.10, Apache virtual testing server with
php local site.
I've Firefox and Safari as primary and secondary browsers.
When working on a
page, if I select 'preview in primary browser', Firefox opens
the page with
my virtual url...no problem. Lately, some php files will not
open. Firefos
give a dialog to open the file in default (DW) or save to
disk. This is very
frustrating since one file it does this to is a login page.
Safari does the
same thing!
I have select the file in question in the finder (extension:
,php) and
through the Get Info and told Mac OS to open this file with
Firefox and all
.php extensions. Rebuilt prebinding so all php files in the
Finder show a
Firefox icon, but still neither Firefox nor Safari will open
them. They
don't recognize the
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1" />
Metatag. The really frustrating thing is that only some files
behave this
way. Most of the others work fine and I can't see anything in
the headers
that would cause one to open and not another. Has anyone ever
run across the
behavior before and if so, what was the cause?
Thanks,
Charles Newbury

Answer 1

On 10/14/07 10:18 AM, in article
[email protected], "Joe
Makowiec"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 14 Oct 2007 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Charles
Newbury wrote:
>
>> Running DW 8, OS 10.4.10, Apache virtual testing
server with php
>> local site.
>>
>> I've Firefox and Safari as primary and secondary
browsers. When
>> working on a page, if I select 'preview in primary
browser', Firefox
>> opens the page with my virtual url...no problem.
Lately, some php
>> files will not open. Firefos give a dialog to open
the file in
>> default (DW) or save to disk. This is very
frustrating since one
>> file it does this to is a login page. Safari does
the same thing!
>
> What happens on the actual server?
>
>> I have select the file in question in the finder
(extension: ,php)
>> and through the Get Info and told Mac OS to open
this file with
>> Firefox and all .php extensions. Rebuilt prebinding
so all php files
>> in the Finder show a Firefox icon, but still neither
Firefox nor
>> Safari will open them. They don't recognize the
>>
>
> Are you sure that your local server is running? Also,
I'm no Mac
> maven, but I'm given to understand that the version of
Apache which
> comes installed on Macs is on the underpowered side, and
should be
> replaced with a version downloaded from somewhere?
True, I'm running Apache 1.3, but I'm leery of trying to
upgrade to a newer
version for fear of messing up everything that already works.
Had a real
headache getting MySQL 5, PHP 5 and phpMyAdmin all up and
running with DW 8.
Fortunately I had David Powers book that gave pretty much
idiot proof
instructions on how to install all this stuff. I'd never been
able to do it
left to my own devices. Another caveat is that my webhost,
like most, is
behind the upgrade curve: they run MySQL 4.1 and phpMyAdmin
2,8 so if I
upgrade too much there may be compatibility issues.
Another oddity, renaming that file from .php to .html
extension causes it
to open fine in Firefox and Safari. I don't think it's kosher
to keep it
that way since it does contain DW8's login php scripts.
Again, there's no
problem with other .php files.