Question

I have begun studying php today and after installing xampp (32 bit windows 7) I opened netbeans and started the classical hello world. Once finished I turned on apache via xampp and tried to execute my program. First I got a

Object Not Found Error

then I gave the path to my program,

http://localhost/C:/Users/zizzo/Dropbox/fraluigab/programming-luigi/php/Index.php

which was not the default and I got

Access Forbidden Error 403.

Now I have two questions: Can I make that my default path instead of simply localhost? And then, how can I get the access allowed to execute my programs?

Thanks

Answer 1

Edit c:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf and look for:

DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"

Change to:

DocumentRoot "C:/Users/zizzo/Dropbox/"

Also look for:

<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs">

Change to:

<Directory "C:/Users/zizzo/Dropbox/">

Then restart the server.

Then you can visit:

http://localhost/fraluigab/programming-luigi/php/Index.php