Mac/Apache question
I broke my Apache webserver installation.
I am currently building a website using PHP. Which needs a webserver so you can check it, and for reasons of convenience I tend to put these things on my own local server (comes inclusive in Mac OS X) before releasing them to the wider world.
I've found the folder where I need to put the damn things, and in the past, I'd bookmarked the location @ http://127.0.0.1/~username/etc
My impression was that 127.0.0.1 would _always_ be my local computer, but right now, when I try to access it, I get 'your computer isn’t connected to the Internet' which, no, it isn't. It's not supposed to. I haven't deactivated Apache; but I _have_ changed network settings a number of times.
The manual is more than useless (it tries to use nonexistent, hardcoded links that bear no relation to the manual that's actually installed on my computer).
My guess would be that the location has changed, but I have no idea where to find it. I also used to be able to test the server somehow, but in the time since I last successfully accessed it, I seem to have mislaid that information as well.
Can anyone talk me through the process of accessing a local website on my own computer, please? I do have space on a PHP enabled remote server that I can upload to for testing purposes, but I don't want to set the site live - it's very much in the testing phase, and I *don't* want it to escape into the wild yet, so local testing on my own server is perfect.
Also posted at http://green-knight.dreamwidth.org/37719.html where it has gathered
comments. If you're reading at both sites, I'd prefer comments at DW.
I am currently building a website using PHP. Which needs a webserver so you can check it, and for reasons of convenience I tend to put these things on my own local server (comes inclusive in Mac OS X) before releasing them to the wider world.
I've found the folder where I need to put the damn things, and in the past, I'd bookmarked the location @ http://127.0.0.1/~username/etc
My impression was that 127.0.0.1 would _always_ be my local computer, but right now, when I try to access it, I get 'your computer isn’t connected to the Internet' which, no, it isn't. It's not supposed to. I haven't deactivated Apache; but I _have_ changed network settings a number of times.
The manual is more than useless (it tries to use nonexistent, hardcoded links that bear no relation to the manual that's actually installed on my computer).
My guess would be that the location has changed, but I have no idea where to find it. I also used to be able to test the server somehow, but in the time since I last successfully accessed it, I seem to have mislaid that information as well.
Can anyone talk me through the process of accessing a local website on my own computer, please? I do have space on a PHP enabled remote server that I can upload to for testing purposes, but I don't want to set the site live - it's very much in the testing phase, and I *don't* want it to escape into the wild yet, so local testing on my own server is perfect.
Also posted at http://green-knight.dreamwidth.org/37719.html where it has gathered
comments. If you're reading at both sites, I'd prefer comments at DW.