[SOLVED] WAMPP configuration

[midi_mick]

This is my 1st attempt at apache. I have just downloaded and installed WAMPP, and am having problems with relative paths in my documents. I use a commercial host for my published pages, but thought a local apache would help me with development and debug. I have set up a sub-directory under my DirectoryRoot for each website I am maintaining. However, relative links within the pages are not working correctly. Two examples (each a bit different, but showing the same symptoms):

 

1. I have a css file in folder site/css. The main page inli references "css/site.css". This is fine. However, in the css file is a url(../images/back.jpg) definition. Apache tries to find this file in "DocumentRoot/images" rather than in "DocumentRoot/site/images", where it actually resides.

 

2. Using Prototye for Ajax access gives me a similar problem. When I attempt to access data from the relative directory "scripts/program.php", it tries to find "DocumentRoot/scripts/program.php", instead of "DocumentRoot/site/scripts/program.php"

 

I have also tried all this setting by up an Alias for "site", but the results are the same.

 

Any ideas what I am missing in the config?

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Mick

 

 

 

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[steviewdr]

Copy/Move your test dir, so that it will be under:

DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs"

 

Then try and see.

 

Using an alias is not the "proper" method of enabling a website.

 

Vhosts are specifically for that.

 

Also - there are a LOT of includes in your httpd.conf, such as:

 

# XAMPP specific settings

Include conf/extra/httpd-xampp.conf

 

G'Luck,

-steve

[midi_mick]

Thank you Steve. I have just found that to be the solution - setting up virtual hosts, and how to do it on http://www.activsoftware.com/apache/virtualhosts.cfm. Just about to test it all out, but I would say that this will fix. I will consider this thread now solved.