Configuring and Using the Apache HTTP Web Server on a Windows XP PC - Testing (
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Once you have completed the above, you’ll need to do a couple of quick tests to check that you’ve configured Apache correctly. Firstly, create a standard HTML document with ‘Congratulations on a fine piece of configuration’ in between the <body tags> in the www folder, and call it index.html
Now open your browser and type:
http://localhost/index.html
Your self-praise should be displayed. In order to test SSI, create the following file in Notepad and save it as test.shtml:
SSI Test Successful!
<hr>
<!--#include virtual="/index.html" -->
<hr>
Now type http://localhost/test.shtml in the address bar, and you should see a page with; ‘SSI Test Successful!’ at the top, followed by ‘Congratulations on a fine piece of configuration’ in- between two horizontal lines.
To test cgi; create the following in Notepad:
@ECHO OFF
ECHO.
ECHO This is a batch file
ECHO.
PAUSE
CLS
EXIT
Save it as test.bat in the cgi folder and in the browser address bar type;
http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.bat
This should execute the batch file, or at the very least give you an Open or Save dialogue box. If you get a ‘Page cannot be displayed error’, you may need to install XP service pack 1, which can be found on the Microsoft Update site.
Lastly, to test PHP, create the following file in Notepad and save it as test.php in the www directory:
<?
echo "It works!<br>n";
phpinfo();
?>
Now type http//localhost/test.php in the browser address bar. You should see a page with ‘It Works!’ at the top followed by a lot of information regarding PHP. That’s it! You’re all set to begin PHP or script development.
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