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Development Tools Using PHP with MySQL Connecting PHP to MySQL Creating the Products Table

Jaco Burger
Jaco Burger
20,807 Points
Posted by Jaco Burger
Jaco Burger
20,807 Points

Can't load Shirts 4 Mike site on local.

This might be late and I might be overworked ... so excuse me if I missed something stupid :)

I've extracted the source files into htdocs/mike. Whenever I go to localhost/mike, all I get is a white screen, with a blank dom. I've removed all the content from the index.php to test, and echoed a statement, and that appeared fine.

Did I miss a step perhaps? I'm sure it must have something to do with the ROOT_PATH or require_once urls.

Thanks!

1 Answer

Jaco Burger
Jaco Burger
20,807 Points
Jaco Burger
Jaco Burger
20,807 Points

Okay figured it out, so I had to modify the BASE_URL and ROOT_PATH in the config.php a bit. Here is what I did. 

    define("BASE_URL","/mike/");
    define("ROOT_PATH",$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/mike/");

Altough, that doesn't seem right. Why didn't that work with a relative path?

Malith Senanayake
Malith Senanayake
12,488 Points
Malith Senanayake
Malith Senanayake
12,488 Points

Thanks Jaco, I also encountered the same problem. I did the same modification you have done and it worked for me.