Best solutions is to use http://127.0.0.1/ instead. Or try
http://<my_computer_netbios_name> /

Regards,
Alek Andreev
alek@[...].com


-----Original Message-----
From: Michel Laine [mailto:michel@[...].se] 
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 11:40 AM
To: php-windows@[...].net
Subject: [PHP-WIN] Re: When typing "localhost\.." the computer wants to
connect to internet.

"Tim LüDemann" wrote:

>  At first:
>      I run win 98 on my standalone computer.
>      I installed Apache 1.3.22 and PHP 4.1.0, edit the files php.ini
and
>  httpd.conf and put them at the right place. I doublechecked the files.
>  When typing "localhost\index.html.de" the computer wants to connect to
>  internet. It is possible to open the file
"C:\apache\htdocs\index.html.de".
> 
>  I tryed to change my IP to 127.0.0.1 but got an error massage.
>  I changed to 192.168.1.2 but no better result.
> 
>  When trying to open php-files the computer trys to download something
I
>  cannot read because the download-window opens and closes many times
very
>  fast until I press esc. When the browser opens a php-file he shows
nothing.
> 
>  I hope to get help of anyone of you because I worked several days on
it and
>  have no further idea how to solve the problem.
> 
>  Thank You
> 
>  Tim Lüdemann

* Did you verify that your web server is running? - not with PHP or
anything
(one should see a apache 'welcome'-screen of some kind i believe)
* Do you (your client) have the accessrights needed to access the
webserver?
* What if you say 'cancel' on the dialup request?
* What if you use 'http://' in front of your localhost address?
* What if you rename your startpage to index.html or index.php instead
and try
to acces it again?

Read the doc that come with the Apache installation / or homepage - I am
sure
that something of this is covered.

I am no expert on Apache nor Dialup connection in W98, but there are
dozen
things to test - as well as there is some tweaks for the dialup in
windows too.

To tweak the dialup i believe that you find something in
Settings/Control
panel/Network/Properties/Configuration/Dialup
where one can set dialup to something like this: "always" / "when
needed" /
"never".
I don't have any dialup connection installed, so i cannot verify if this
is
correct.
There might be a tweak in IE too - or, if i remember wrong - the tweak
above.

My suggestion is that you do things in this order:
1: Make sure that Apache is up and running.
2: Try to access the default apache startpage (using http://127.0.0.1).
This
often involves checking / changing / browsing through the apache config
files
if it doesn't work. Try with different computers / browsers if possible.
3: Replace the default apache startpage with your own (named as the
apache one)
and see if it works.
4: Put some *simple* PHP code in this file like:
<?PHP
phpinfo();
?> 
5: ...

--

Michel Laine



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