Finding my localhost folder.

I seem to be in an unending battle with PHP.

If I open Safari and enter:

+ http://localhost/+

it shows me:

"+It works!+"

which (if my memory serves me correctly) was a page that I created when I went through the battle with getting PHP configured before (about a year ago).

How do I find this file and so determine where my actual ' localhost' folder is, so that I can begin (again) trying to develop a webpage using PHP? Or (in other words) how do I find the location of the file that says +"It works!+"? If I go to the Finder and ask it to find "It works!" it spews hout HUNDREDS of files, none of which look like the one that I am looking for.

iMac 24 inch, 2.8 GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 4 Gb RAM

Posted on Jan 15, 2011 8:25 AM

17 replies

May 6, 2014 6:09 AM in response to DCondrey

@dcondrey. And others who might be able to explain what I did incorrectly below. Thanks.

I just came across the above dcondrey explanation which is comprehensive and precise. It was a good review of what I did a 6 months ago. My configurations are already as listed above.

My issue is this which brought me to this thread.

I am using dreamweaver for web development on Mac 10.8.3

When I try and preview my index.html in Safari or Firefox,

A window popped up with 4 fields to fill in to set up the server for testing this website. I think.

I cannot get this window back but from memory:

2. I chose 'local' for testing

3. This FIELD was my problem. It had a browse folder to navigate to the Server Location (I think).

I went to library>WebServer>documents>webDevelopmentDemonstration

4. http:// ( I left this blank)

Click saved.

It gave me further pops ups.

Here is the last one that I was reluctant to agree to but I did.

Update Copy on Testing Server?

This will update the file on the testing server.

This might affect others working on the file.

Proceed?

Yes. No.

I clicked yes.

When I try to preview my index.html

Error.

Not found. The requested URL /index.html was not found on this server.

Can someone explain this.

I did some troubleshooting.

When I launch some index.html files from netbeans, the do upload to the browser.

nkuhan

Level 1

4 points

May 6, 2017 10:39 PM in response to DCondrey

also I changed

it's under the DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents" in the httpd.conf file

This thread has been closed by the system or the community team. You may vote for any posts you find helpful, or search the Community for additional answers.

Finding my localhost folder.