php files not opening in firefox

[Paulo Sampaio]

*/var/www/* is the root folder of Apache, everything inside it would be in *
localhost/*

Example:
/var/www/myscript.php = http://localhost/myscript.php

/var/www/some_directory/myscript.php = http://localhost/some_directory/
myscript.php

and so on.

This rule can be modified, by using mod_rewrite you can create rules mapping
the url to specific scripts. That is a more complex aproach, i think the
best is to master absolute paths and urls, and only after that try to learn
about mod_rewrite.

Atenciosamente,
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*Paulo Sampaio*
*Desenvolvimento Web*


2011/2/9 Ashim Kapoor <ashimkapoor at gmail.com>

>
> That is not the right way to open php scripts, you should navigate to them
>> using yout browser. If you simply double click the php file, firefox will
>> load something like:*
>>
>> file:///var/www/myscript.php*
>>
>> It won't work because php needs to be interpreted on demand. Apache, your
>> webserver runs this task diferently it invokes the php interpreter runs it
>> and the result is then presented to the browser. For that you to access,
>> thru your browser, something like
>>
>> *http://localhost/myscript.php*
>>
>>
> How would i open this file:///var/www/Php and MySql Bible/ch4/file1.php
> with the localhost way ?
> As far as i remember till today afternoon ALL php files withing the var/www
> folder would open in FF by clicking on them.
>
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