404 Error

[amn]

Version 1.7.3
Ubuntu 12.04

Hi I just downloaded XAMPP and localhost/phpmyadmin and localhost/index.php work fine however when I try to open other php files, for example localhost/website.php (code that I wrote) I get:

Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.


I am new to using XAMPP. Can anyone give me a fix for this?

Thanks!

[Altrea]

Hi Ann,

there are only two possibilities for your issue

• you don't have saved your welcome.php file in the correct folder (directly inside the htdocs folder)
• or you have a typo in your URL

More information about your 404 issue (for example where the file is expected by Apache) can be found in your Apache error.log file

best wishes,
Altrea

[amn]

Hi Altrea, it seems that both the spelling and location are correct so it must be some other problem. For some reason when I change the index.php file however, it has no effect on when I try to go to localhost/index.php. Do you have an explanation for that? Thanks for your help.

[JonB]

what is the ownership and permissions of the file '/opt/lampp/htdocs/website.php' ?

it Term use 'ls -l website.php' and paste the output into your reply.

Do the same for '/opt/lampp/htdocs/index.php'

and add the output from 'tail index.php', please...

Good Luck



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