Website Design Forum

**pealo86** · 10-12-2007, 09:56 AM

I've recently been given an old Mac, which I need to use to create and test my sites one.

I use XAMPP in order to test my PHP scripts and design my databases. For some reason when trying to access XAMPP through Safari, I get a message similar to:

Quote:

The page cannot be diaplayed because no connection is available

[or something similar]

As I dont have an internet connection for my Mac, is there any way to set the browser to work offline?

I am soon to install Firefox on it, hopefully that will work!

**Sydpix** · 10-12-2007, 02:45 PM

Stupid question. Did you go to the XAMPP control panel and start apache?

**coolkbk585** · 10-12-2007, 04:07 PM

And where are you pointing the browser to to access your files?

**Sydpix** · 10-12-2007, 06:15 PM

http://localhost or your ip http://127.0.0.1

**pealo86** · 10-13-2007, 10:32 AM

oh i forgot to say that I had been typing http://localhost, but it doesnt work.
also, i havent told it to start apache as i never had to do that on my pc, ill try that!

**pealo86** · 10-15-2007, 11:03 AM

Ive tried starting everything from the control panel, but it just comes up with a message at the bottom saying something like 'You need to start XAMPP as root!'

I don't have a clue what this means?? It doesnt make localhost accessible anyway.