Very strange problem:
I am trying to set up a site in DreamWeaver. In order to utilize the WAMP environment, I am trying to place the root folder in the www folder in my WAMP folder.
C:\WAMP\www\mysite
I make the site, but here is the weird part:
The mysite folder DOESN'T SHOW UP in C:\WAMP\www !!
DreamWeaver claims it's there, and in fact, IT SEES ANOTHER FOLDER THAT I CREATED THERE MANUALLY, but when I go to C:\WAMP\www there is only the folder I created manually, but the one DW made isn't there.
I have it set so that hidden folders display (although it should not be hidden).
This problem is also preventing me from testing the page. When I go to test it claims that the page is not found. If I place a file manually into a folder in C:\WAMP\www, it works fine.
Any possible explanation for this?! Many thanks in advance for any help!
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Right click the www folder, select properties, and go to the security tab. The list of permissions for www will most likely be the default permissions for all child objects. Make sure you're listed, or a security template that you're a member of. If not, add yourself and click advanced, "replace permission entries on all child objects..." and be sure Inherit permissions is checked as well.
Jason:
Local Root Folder: C:\wamp\www\MySite\
Http Address: Http://
Remote access: none
Testing server:
Model: PHP/MySQL
Access: Local/Network
Testing server Folder: C:\wamp\www\MySite\
URL Prefix: http://localhost/
V2:
When I go to the properties on the www folder, there is no security tab. But read-only does have a green box in it. When I cleared it closed properties and went back in, the green box was there again. Don't know if that is relevant. I clicked on Advanced in the general tab, but there was nothing there about security -- just indexing & compress/encrypt.
Just for clarification -- I DO need to put my site into this www folder in order to have PHP work, right? (I got that from some tutorial)
Again, what completely befuddles me is that when I try to create another site in DW, and I go to browse for location and go to C:\wamp\www, the MySite folder and other attempted folders made in DW appear to be there, as well as the folders I manually placed there outside of DW. But when I go to the folder via explorer -- none of the folders DW made are there...
It seems to be a funky permissions issue to me. If DW can show the folders when defining a site, but explorer hides them, it's either the folders' view permissions, or an explorer view refresh is required.
There's an explorer folder view option to automatically refresh when the contents change somewhere... not advised on a busy network drive though. Does hitting f5 in explorer show the folders?
More strangeness:
In explorer I made a folder in C:\wamp\www, and used DW to define a new site in that folder.
When I create a new file IN EXPLORER in that folder called test.php, it shows up in DW under the main folder. However, when I create test1.php in DW and place it right under the test.php file, it DOES NOT SHOW UP IN THE FOLDER IN EXPLORER!
Okay I did this - installed XAMPP that is. 2 problems -
1. MySQL is not cooperating. In the XAMPP control it says MySQL is running, but when I press admin it open to a page that says:
MySQL said:
#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
I already had MySQL installed on my computer prior to this install. Is it possible that it's there twice? if so, what should I do? I don't have any DBs yet, so I don't care about losing any data, but I do wantit to work.
2. I am not sure what to do with it... is there a particular place where I should store all of my root folders for websites, etc...?
>> Okay I did this - installed XAMPP that is
Did it resolve the issue with being able to see files?
>> Is it possible that it's there twice?
Yup. Remove XAMPP and remove the other MySQL instance. Then reinstall XAMPP and try to use MySQL again.
>> I am not sure what to do with it... is there a particular place where I should store all of my root folders for
>> websites, etc...?
It's the same as WAMPP in that sense. You should have an XAMPP folder on the C:\ drive and in there will be a public web root (C:\xampp\htdocs by default). All Dreamweaver settings for paths should point there.
Okay, I did everything, and everything was working wonderfully. Then I went to users in phpMyAdmin saw that there was no password, and set a password. Now I am getting the same error everywhere I go:
MySQL said:
#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
Sorry for being such a twit. What is to be done?
I actually tried this -- except I didn't use My Documents I just did the Desktop. (Not sure if there is a difference, for this purpose)
Created hello.php in DW in this desktop folder, where it showed up fine, but still nothing in C:\xampp\htdocs\mytestsite
Still no preview.
But here is the nutty thing - afterwards I changed the local folder back to C:\xampp\htdocs\mytestsite
>> BTW earlier you said "Keep the remote and testing server settings the same..."
>> My remote access is set to : None
Try setting Remote Server to Local/Network option and mimic the Testing Server in all respects to see why this issue is occurring.
If you remember from your other question, I advised not using a local testing server. You are seeing why I recommend this...
"Try setting Remote Server to Local/Network option and mimic the Testing Server in all respects to see why this issue is occurring."
Tried it -- changed the setting from local testing to local editing/remote testing. Defined remote server as C:\xampp\htdocs\mytestsite
No changes, same thing happens.
"If you remember from your other question, I advised not using a local testing server. You are seeing why I recommend this..."
I do remember, however I found out that our web host does not offer any services like MySQL or PHP, etc. unless we upgrade our package, which Powers That Be are reluctant to purchase without some demonstrable results first, so I am stuck with local testing for now..
Sigh.
Okay, one last attempt. I did just install XAMPP on my XP Machine here at work and had no issues creating a page and moving it to C:\xampp\htdocs\ so we have to be looking at one of the following:
1. Bad WAMPP/XAMPP installs two straight times
2. Some form of security on that machine is preventing the writes from DW because you are writing outside of the Documents and Settings folder (which is v2media's idea).
I refuse to believe it is #1. MySQL problems, yes. But low level file operations, no. So that leaves us with trying #2. I assume you are running as a local adminstrator?
What you need to do is uninstall XAMPP (again) and reinstall (again). When the installer finishes, it loads up that DOS window and steps you through some configuration options. One of those options is to move the installation to a different path. Move it into your Documents and Settings/Username/My Documents folder and start over on the site configuration.
If this still doesn't work, let me know. There is one more thing we can try.
>> I don't have DW at home, so I can't try here. I might acquire it this weekend,
30 day free trial.
>> I have Vista Home Premium at home. How does XAMPP mesh with that?
Beats me, I don't have Vista anywhere. The XAMPP site says they are compatible. Since we're trying to rule out problems and narrow things down to a single flaw maybe it's worth trying. I do have Windows 7 on a netbook. I'll try to stick XAMPP on there tonight and let you know how it goes.
>> Moving the xampp install to My Documents did the trick, now everything works, and DW actions are actually
>> reflected outside DW. Any idea why this is?
My guess is that your work machine has some form of security software or group policy that prevented the writes from working. I've never seen a machine outside of a network that had any issues writing files with DW.
To be completely fair, v2Media had it right from the beginning in http:#a25290786 by calling it a permissions problem. Would you mind if I asked a Moderator to split the points between us?
You are a genius. Moving the xampp install to My Documents did the trick, now everything works, and DW actions are actually reflected outside DW. Any idea why this is? Does DW not have permission to write to the C:\ drive? Or was something being misdirected?
the new path for site & server is;
C:\Documents and Settings\Andrey\My Documents\xampp\htdocs\New
Anyway, thanks very much. Tons more questions to follow, surely, now that I can actually get to work : )
XP users' "My Documents" folder has special permissions that are not inherited from C:\ as other folder do. Administrators, System, and the user only has access and write perms. By installing xamp to My Docs, you're side-stepping the issue, not solving it.
MS have a great tool for restoring IIS NTFS permissions to default and I did a 10 minute search to find a similar tool that will reset permissions to a system drive. Didn't find one; but I found a great tutorial (Microsoft Certification primer) on NTFS permissions that would help you to at least identify the funky permissions in operation on the previous C:\xampp\htdocs install.
http://www.learnthat.com/C
I experienced this problem a lot where files generated by an installed program are not viewable to the logged in user. The problem is always funky permissions. The way to investigate is to analyse the advanced permissions in effect from the top level inherited drive permissions, to the parent folder in question and all child objects. The solution is to reset permissions while logged in as the highest level user as possible (Domain Administrator or local Administrator).
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by: jason1178Posted on 2009-09-08 at 22:06:32ID: 25288359
Andrey,
How are the three parts of the site definition set?
Local Site = ?
Remote Site = ?
Testing Server = ?