Creating a Testing Server

Question

I am using an Apple Mac and Dream Weaver.  I need to use PHP within HTML files.  While I have the Dream Weaver site working with ipage.com, I am having a difficult time setting up a local test server.  I have installed MAMP and have the Apache and Mysql servers running.  My DreamWeaver file is stored as
User/rnharri/Documents/Sites/S/D/test.php.  When I configure the site I created
Servername: =localtest
Connect using: Local/Network
Server Folder: /Users/rnharri/Documents/Sites/s/d
Web URL: http://localhost/s/d
At first I got "can not find file:" now every time I run the file it it guides me thorugh setting up a local server and executes the HTML code but ignore the PHP code.
Can anyone tell me exactly what the Web URL: should include and how I can test on my mac to make sure the directories are what I am specifying.
Thanks,
Rick

Answer 1

Rick,
MAMP defaults to Applications/MAMP/htdocs folder and considers this as localhost, unless otherwise you've changed the setting.
You may want to create your site folder within /htdocs and then configure the definition in Dreamweaver. This way, your site will be localhost/s/d and your file path will be htdocs/s/d.
I use MAMP PRO. But, the setting is more or less similar for MAMP (free version) too.
Notice 'Disk Location'. You can change this to your Documents/Sites folder if you prefer working with files from there. Then, restart MAMP. localhost will now point to Documents/Sites folder instead of MAMP/htdocs.
-ST