[dada]

My laptop has been running slower and slower, so I took it down to the Apple Store where the tech ran an archive and install. Didn't help with the slow down.

This morning I discovered that Personal Web Sharing is not starting up. Normally it's turned on all the time. When I click the box to start it the message pane states that it's strarting up, but it never does.

Ideas anyone?

david
Intel Mac 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo
OSX 10.4.10

[macintologist]

Open the console and tell us what it says pertaining to apache or httpd

[dada]

Processing config directory: /private/etc/httpd/users/*.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf
fopen: No such file or directory
httpd: could not open document config file /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
Processing config directory: /private/etc/httpd/users/*.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf
fopen: No such file or directory
httpd: could not open document config file /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
Processing config directory: /private/etc/httpd/users/*.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf
fopen: No such file or directory
httpd: could not open document config file /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

[reader50]

Create the missing file. Put these contents in. Save as plain text.

Code:
<Directory "/Users/+entropy-php/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

[dada]

Had my son create the file in Terminal . . . Web Sharing still unwilling to start up

Here is what Console has to say:

Processing config directory: /private/etc/httpd/users/*.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/+entrophy-php.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf
fopen: No such file or directory
httpd: could not open document config file /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

[reader50]

When he saved the file, he named it "+entrophy-php.conf". Change "entrophy" to "entropy" and try again. Get rid of the misspelled file.

[dada]

Finally have the web server + php + mysql running (used the "Go To Folder" option in the finder to locate the private files and make the necessary changes), but . . . just ran into another problem . . . now Dreamweaver refuses to connect to php. Everytime I try to create a connection, the following error message appears:

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The url prefix for this site's testing server could not be resolved. This could be due to several reasons:

1. You have specified a local root folder that does not fall under the web server root folder.

2. There is no web server running on the url

3. Ther is a web server running but no virtual web folder has been mapped to this prefix.
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The web server is running. The fact that I'm able to use phpMyAdmin to create a new db confims that.
The local root folder for this site does exist . . . Dreamweaver uploads files to it + they display on the Testing Server window.

guess it's time to re-install DW
david

OSX 10.4.10
phpMyAdmin-2.6.4-pl3
mysql-5.0.45
PHP Version 4.4.7

[besson3c]

If you can access your site through a browser outside of DW (and it sounds like you can since you mentioned being able to use phpMyAdmin), this is a Dreamweaver issue.