Set up the Site's Testing Server

Hello All!
SIMPLY CANNOT "Set up the Site's Testing Server"!!
I had a Database set up working great. Then I got a message,
"Set up
the Site's Testing Server". Never could get it to work again.
So I said forget it...toooo hard....I'll just continue making
this
stupid page in PHP. Well now the page is made in PHP but I
still can't
test it locally. Isn't that the purpose of having a Server on
your machine?
What is the problem: the Php, the Apache,...it seems to me
it's DW?
Are there any companies in Los Angeles CA that will help
developers just
troubleshoot the configuration and set up of a developing
computer?
Just feel so mad and totally STUCK!!
Star2

Create a PHP page that contains this -
<?php php_info(); ?>
in the body. Preview it. What do you see?
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"Star2" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Alan wrote:
>
>> What specific step is not working?
>>
>> what os is computer?
> Answer: Windows XP
>
>> have you installed Apache? PHP?
> Answer: Yes.
>
>> What do you see when you type
http://localhost/ into browser's
address
>> bar?
> Answer: I see the pages and they come up.
> I may have jumped the gun in the respect that the page
is cgi and php. I
> was expecting the whole page to process when I test it
with the "Submit"
> button. I *thought* I had tested it before locally that
way. Shouldn't at
> least the php portion of the page process locally and
give a result?
>
>> What exactly do you have entered in the Testing
server info in dw?
>> Tip: click the Advanced tab to get out of the Q/A
wizard and right to the
>> info.
> Answer: C:\Sites\TestSite and the Apache server is
configured to point
> to as localhost C:\Sites
>
> Many thanks,
> Star2
>
>

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    I'm using DWCS5. Internet explorer 8, Windows 7.

    Thank you for your prompt response. I'm afraid I'm still totally puzzled here. It sounds like you're very knowledeable about your comments, but I would like to know more. I accept that using the local site root in links would be bad, but I'm not clear WHY. Structuring the links as I have doesn't cause any links to break. I've structured them this way because it's the only way I can find that everything works. But I still do not understand WHY I have to do it. Using different libary include files doesn't seem like a good way to go, though
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