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PHP

Posted by John Sanchez
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John Sanchez
iOS Development Techdegree Student 2,401 Points

"localhost" url doesn't bring me to htdocs folder

While a couple minutes ago I was happily programming in php, all of a sudden when I pressed the refresh button I got an error : Not Found The requested URL /MAMP/contact.php was not found on this server. This was in place of contact.php. When I redirected the browser to localhost, the page said: Index of/ ... and then a list of files. I realized these files are the files located in my WebServer/Documents folder. This would mean localhost looks for files in this Documents folder instead of it the htdocs folder. It was working fine a short while ago.... Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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5 Answers

Dan Ridley
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Dan Ridley
Courses Plus Student 14,839 Points
Dan Ridley
Dan Ridley
Courses Plus Student 14,839 Points

Hey John Sanchez ,

I am sorry you are having a problem.

Let me tag Randy Hoyt for us to try and help us solve this problem for you.

John Locke
John Locke
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John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points

You might have to listen on a different port, sometimes applications such as Skype take up the default Port 80.

John Sanchez
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John Sanchez
iOS Development Techdegree Student 2,401 Points
John Sanchez
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John Sanchez
iOS Development Techdegree Student 2,401 Points

When I go to [http://localhost/MAMP/], I get the same error.

Randy Hoyt
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Randy Hoyt
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Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher

It sounds like http://localhost/MAMP/ is pointing at your htdocs directory. It also sounds like you have an error in your PHP file. If there's an error and nothing output gets sent to the browser, then the browser will respond with that error. In your contact.php file, type something like "Hello?" at the very top (before the first opening PHP tag) and then visit [http://localhost/MAMP/contact.php]. Does the browser display the message?

John Sanchez
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John Sanchez
iOS Development Techdegree Student 2,401 Points

Nothing happens...I get the error: Not Found The requested URL /contact.php was not found on this server.

Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Which address are you looking at?

Can you try both of them (with that "Hello" message in it)? I can't quite tell what's going on, but I think the first one will work.

If neither of them work, can you create a new file in your htdocs directory named [test.html], put text like "Hello?" in it, and then try each of these?

Nicholas Wadsworth
Nicholas Wadsworth
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I'm having the same problem. Only the http://localhost/contact.php address seems to be working.

John Sanchez
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John Sanchez
iOS Development Techdegree Student 2,401 Points

Type in http://localhost:8888 instead.