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Support => General => Topic started by: paranoic on March 17, 2010, 18:51:51

Title: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: paranoic on March 17, 2010, 18:51:51: hi guys,

i downloaded elxis and put it into apache/httpdocs keening to install it on my pc local host.
when i entered either 127.0.0.1 or localhost in my mozilla or msexplorer it will not open

any idea how to solve this prblm

thanks a lot
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: ks-net on March 17, 2010, 19:01:47: Please.... do not capitalize your post subject.... do you think that you will get an answer more quickly if you do so?

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msxplorer
what is your system? is it mswindows?
are you sure that your localhost has a working apache installation? a php? etc.. etc...

what do you mean that it does not open? ...... blank page? error? host not found?

be more specific please?
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: paranoic on March 17, 2010, 20:34:08: im working on win xp SP2
i already have used this localhost by same apache on the same xp os

on firefox it shows blank page but ob explorer shows: The page cannot be found (HTTP 404)
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: ks-net on March 17, 2010, 21:27:17: are you using xampp?

if not install it ... is better on win to use xampp.... you can control-adnistrate easier mysql,ftp,apache,php.....

are you sure your local server(apache,php,mysql) running proper?
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: paranoic on March 17, 2010, 21:33:56: everything works just ok with apache, as usual.... no errors or disfunctions noticed

i have not used any other local server but apache cause i never had one single prblm with it

whats that xxamp abput, where can i download it, ... can i use it even i have apache instaled
could u give me any short directions , if there is no answer for my problem

i can understand this might be hard problem to solve,.. there is no forum i could find a concreet answer aabout this problem
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: Ivan Trebješanin on March 17, 2010, 22:10:32: What is your currently installed PHP version?
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: ks-net on March 17, 2010, 22:14:14: xampp is an application that installs apache-ftp-phpmyadmin-mysql-php under it's root folder and provides a global-admin panel to setup all this.. a main panel to control start-stop-restart any of this services and servers also is easier to see if something goes wrong(stopped server etc..)

i think that you will need to uninstall old servers.. but no problem... xammp will install it's own versions

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

i mention it because almost every windows user uses xampp to setup a local server(easy to control things on mswin-shit).....

as for me i use linux ... and i have no need of this applications
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: paranoic on March 18, 2010, 01:06:04: i installed xxamp (erased apache) and the same thing happens.
have no idea what could it be. first when i could not enter localhost after research i formated my disc and installed fresh win xp
fresh apache, everithing required i installed properly and everythig works just fine
but localhost does not appear

.... donno what to say else,... im confused
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: Ivan Trebješanin on March 18, 2010, 01:55:16: Have you read this: https://www.elxis.org/guides/developers-guides/local-apache-and-virtual-hosts.html
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: CREATIVE Options on March 18, 2010, 10:14:01: or try to remove the httaccess.txt (or .htaccess) file.
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: ks-net on March 18, 2010, 13:14:46: ok... take them from the beginning... describe exactly the problem...
don't say just "not opening"... give more details
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: datahell on March 18, 2010, 14:23:31: You have not set up Apache properly. Open httpd.conf and set the documentroot directive and a directory entry.

Example:

DocumentRoot "D:/myweb/elxis"
<Directory "D:/myweb/elxis">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: ks-net on March 18, 2010, 14:31:48: Quote from: paranoic
everything works just ok with apache, as usual.... no errors or disfunctions noticed

i have not used any other local server but apache cause i never had one single prblm with it
he thinks that apache works... but i am not quite sure... so i mention xammp cause there are php and mysql that needs to de setup and running and win-guys have no experience on all this staff

Quote from: ks-net
what do you mean that it does not open? ...... blank page? error? host not found?
i got no answer yet
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: paranoic on March 18, 2010, 15:14:29: what do you mean that it does not open? ...... blank page? error? host not found?
>> when you in your web browser type in 127.0.0.1 or localhost it appears filelist from httpdocs that uploaded earliary (eg. joomla elxis or any other cms in order to install it), it used to work just fine, i installed elxis on localhost like 100 times
in my case only blank page shows up when using mozilla, and when using ms explorer shows that page cannot be found

i deleted apache and installed xxamp and same thing happens again.

(sorry for kinda "like an idiot" explanation, but i cannot exxpress myself better in english)

i also tryed to turn off my firewalls and antiviruses, but no result
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: ks-net on March 18, 2010, 15:21:48: Quote
(sorry for kinda "like an idiot" explanation, but i cannot exxpress myself better in english)
i don't want you to fill like that....

so apache works
and blank page is the answer we want.... probably your php is not installed or not configured properly .. check this first

upload a test.php file ... write inside it
<?php phpinfo() ; ?>
call it in browser and tell as what happened... if all is ok then your php information will load.... if so then tell as what your php version is
Title: Re: CANNOT ENTER LOCALHOST
Post by: scept1c on March 23, 2010, 16:58:27: thanks datahell, my problem really was the wrong Apache intallation. Paranoic, I hope you'll solve your problem too.