How do I run a file on localhost

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How do I actually run a file on localhost  I know it is working  but how do I run a file on it  and how do I verify that the file is in fact running on localhost   Server newbie here  additional questions  I have xampp running Apache 2 2   From your responses it sounds like I have to type in the path in the browser in order to open the file on the localhost  So  if I want to have the file in a subdirectory  I would have to type the full path including the directory    Is there a way to have the browser point to the localhost while I am working on my html  instead of having to type in the path all the time   I am working in Dreamweaver CS3  and want to use include commands  either SSI or PHP   but not have to keep putting my files up on HostGator in order to see if they are working   What is the best way to do this  please be specific  I know nothing   If there is a detailed tutorial anywhere  really appreciate a link   Thank you

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Think of it this way   Anything that you type after localhost  is the path inside the root directory of your server www or htdocs    You don t need to specify the complete path of the file you want to run but just the path after the root folder because putting localhost  takes you inside the root folder itself

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Ok  thanks for the more specific info  ppl may remove their downvotes now     What you are proposing is a very common thing to do  You want to run your web application locally without uploading it to your host yet  That s totally fine and that s what your Apache is there for  Your Apache is a web server meaning its main purpose is to serve HTML  PHP  ASP  etc  files  Some like PHP  it first sends to the interpreter and then sends the rendered file to the browser  All in all  it s just serving pages to your browser  the client     Your web server has a root directory which is wwwroot  IIS  or htdocs  apache  xampp  or something else like public html  www or html  etc  It depends on your OS and web server   Now if you type http   localhost into your browser  your browser will be directed to this webroot and the server will serve any index html  index php  etc  it can find there  in a customizable order     If you have a project called  mytutorial  you can enter http   localhost mytutorial and the server will show you the index-file of your tutorial  etc  If you look at the absolute path of this tutorial folder then it s just a subfolder of your webroot  which is itself located somewhere on your harddrive  but that doesn t matter for your localhost   So the relative path is  http   localhost mytutorial   while the absolute path may be  c  webservices apache www   or  c  xampp htdocs   If you re working with Dreamweaver you can simplify the testing process by setting up your local server as a testing server in your project settings  Try it  It s easy  Once it s done  you can just press the browser icon with any of your files and it will open on localhost

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i am working in VScode currently  i was wanting to run my html page just to see all my main elements   1  first  in vs  right click desired html file and choose  copy path   do not choose relative    2  finally  paste html path in address bar  i used chrome  and hit enter  your html page should display  hope this helps someone out

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Ok  thanks for the more specific info  ppl may remove their downvotes now     What you are proposing is a very common thing to do  You want to run your web application locally without uploading it to your host yet  That s totally fine and that s what your Apache is there for  Your Apache is a web server meaning its main purpose is to serve HTML  PHP  ASP  etc  files  Some like PHP  it first sends to the interpreter and then sends the rendered file to the browser  All in all  it s just serving pages to your browser  the client     Your web server has a root directory which is wwwroot  IIS  or htdocs  apache  xampp  or something else like public html  www or html  etc  It depends on your OS and web server   Now if you type http   localhost into your browser  your browser will be directed to this webroot and the server will serve any index html  index php  etc  it can find there  in a customizable order     If you have a project called  mytutorial  you can enter http   localhost mytutorial and the server will show you the index-file of your tutorial  etc  If you look at the absolute path of this tutorial folder then it s just a subfolder of your webroot  which is itself located somewhere on your harddrive  but that doesn t matter for your localhost   So the relative path is  http   localhost mytutorial   while the absolute path may be  c  webservices apache www   or  c  xampp htdocs   If you re working with Dreamweaver you can simplify the testing process by setting up your local server as a testing server in your project settings  Try it  It s easy  Once it s done  you can just press the browser icon with any of your files and it will open on localhost

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I m not really sure what you mean  so I ll start simply   If the file you re trying to  run  is static content  like HTML or even Javascript  you don t need to run it on  localhost     you should just be able to open it from wherever it is on your machine in your browser   If it is a piece of server-side code  ASP  NET   php  whatever else  uou need to be running either a web server  or if you re using Visual Studio  start the development server for your application  F5 to debug  or CTRL F5 to start without debugging    If you re using a web server  you ll need to have a web site configured with the home directory set to the directory the file is in  or  just put the file in whatever home directory is configured    If you re using Visual Studio  the file just needs to be in your project

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Localhost is the computer you re using right now  You run things by typing commands at the command prompt and pressing Enter  If you re asking how to run things from your programming environment  then the answer depends on which environment you re using  Most languages have commands with names like system or exec for running external programs  You need to be more specific about what you re actually looking to do  and what obstacles you ve encountered while trying to achieve it

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I m not really sure what you mean  so I ll start simply   If the file you re trying to  run  is static content  like HTML or even Javascript  you don t need to run it on  localhost     you should just be able to open it from wherever it is on your machine in your browser   If it is a piece of server-side code  ASP  NET   php  whatever else  uou need to be running either a web server  or if you re using Visual Studio  start the development server for your application  F5 to debug  or CTRL F5 to start without debugging    If you re using a web server  you ll need to have a web site configured with the home directory set to the directory the file is in  or  just put the file in whatever home directory is configured    If you re using Visual Studio  the file just needs to be in your project

User · Answer

Localhost is the computer you re using right now  You run things by typing commands at the command prompt and pressing Enter  If you re asking how to run things from your programming environment  then the answer depends on which environment you re using  Most languages have commands with names like system or exec for running external programs  You need to be more specific about what you re actually looking to do  and what obstacles you ve encountered while trying to achieve it

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I m not really sure what you mean  so I ll start simply   If the file you re trying to  run  is static content  like HTML or even Javascript  you don t need to run it on  localhost     you should just be able to open it from wherever it is on your machine in your browser   If it is a piece of server-side code  ASP  NET   php  whatever else  uou need to be running either a web server  or if you re using Visual Studio  start the development server for your application  F5 to debug  or CTRL F5 to start without debugging    If you re using a web server  you ll need to have a web site configured with the home directory set to the directory the file is in  or  just put the file in whatever home directory is configured    If you re using Visual Studio  the file just needs to be in your project

User · Answer

Looking at your other question I assume you are trying to run a php or asp file or something on your webserver and this is your first attempt in webdesign   Once you have installed php correctly  which you probably did when you got XAMPP  just place whatever file you want under your localhost   www var html perhaps   and it should run  You can check this of course at localhost file php in your browser

User · Answer

Ok  thanks for the more specific info  ppl may remove their downvotes now     What you are proposing is a very common thing to do  You want to run your web application locally without uploading it to your host yet  That s totally fine and that s what your Apache is there for  Your Apache is a web server meaning its main purpose is to serve HTML  PHP  ASP  etc  files  Some like PHP  it first sends to the interpreter and then sends the rendered file to the browser  All in all  it s just serving pages to your browser  the client     Your web server has a root directory which is wwwroot  IIS  or htdocs  apache  xampp  or something else like public html  www or html  etc  It depends on your OS and web server   Now if you type http   localhost into your browser  your browser will be directed to this webroot and the server will serve any index html  index php  etc  it can find there  in a customizable order     If you have a project called  mytutorial  you can enter http   localhost mytutorial and the server will show you the index-file of your tutorial  etc  If you look at the absolute path of this tutorial folder then it s just a subfolder of your webroot  which is itself located somewhere on your harddrive  but that doesn t matter for your localhost   So the relative path is  http   localhost mytutorial   while the absolute path may be  c  webservices apache www   or  c  xampp htdocs   If you re working with Dreamweaver you can simplify the testing process by setting up your local server as a testing server in your project settings  Try it  It s easy  Once it s done  you can just press the browser icon with any of your files and it will open on localhost

User · Answer

Localhost is the computer you re using right now  You run things by typing commands at the command prompt and pressing Enter  If you re asking how to run things from your programming environment  then the answer depends on which environment you re using  Most languages have commands with names like system or exec for running external programs  You need to be more specific about what you re actually looking to do  and what obstacles you ve encountered while trying to achieve it

User · Answer

Localhost is the computer you re using right now  You run things by typing commands at the command prompt and pressing Enter  If you re asking how to run things from your programming environment  then the answer depends on which environment you re using  Most languages have commands with names like system or exec for running external programs  You need to be more specific about what you re actually looking to do  and what obstacles you ve encountered while trying to achieve it

User · Answer

Looking at your other question I assume you are trying to run a php or asp file or something on your webserver and this is your first attempt in webdesign   Once you have installed php correctly  which you probably did when you got XAMPP  just place whatever file you want under your localhost   www var html perhaps   and it should run  You can check this of course at localhost file php in your browser

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You can do it by running with following command   php -S localhost 8888

User · Answer

Looking at your other question I assume you are trying to run a php or asp file or something on your webserver and this is your first attempt in webdesign   Once you have installed php correctly  which you probably did when you got XAMPP  just place whatever file you want under your localhost   www var html perhaps   and it should run  You can check this of course at localhost file php in your browser

User · Answer

i am working in VScode currently  i was wanting to run my html page just to see all my main elements   1  first  in vs  right click desired html file and choose  copy path   do not choose relative    2  finally  paste html path in address bar  i used chrome  and hit enter  your html page should display  hope this helps someone out

User · Answer

Think of it this way   Anything that you type after localhost  is the path inside the root directory of your server www or htdocs    You don t need to specify the complete path of the file you want to run but just the path after the root folder because putting localhost  takes you inside the root folder itself

User · Answer

Looking at your other question I assume you are trying to run a php or asp file or something on your webserver and this is your first attempt in webdesign   Once you have installed php correctly  which you probably did when you got XAMPP  just place whatever file you want under your localhost   www var html perhaps   and it should run  You can check this of course at localhost file php in your browser

User · Answer

Ok  thanks for the more specific info  ppl may remove their downvotes now     What you are proposing is a very common thing to do  You want to run your web application locally without uploading it to your host yet  That s totally fine and that s what your Apache is there for  Your Apache is a web server meaning its main purpose is to serve HTML  PHP  ASP  etc  files  Some like PHP  it first sends to the interpreter and then sends the rendered file to the browser  All in all  it s just serving pages to your browser  the client     Your web server has a root directory which is wwwroot  IIS  or htdocs  apache  xampp  or something else like public html  www or html  etc  It depends on your OS and web server   Now if you type http   localhost into your browser  your browser will be directed to this webroot and the server will serve any index html  index php  etc  it can find there  in a customizable order     If you have a project called  mytutorial  you can enter http   localhost mytutorial and the server will show you the index-file of your tutorial  etc  If you look at the absolute path of this tutorial folder then it s just a subfolder of your webroot  which is itself located somewhere on your harddrive  but that doesn t matter for your localhost   So the relative path is  http   localhost mytutorial   while the absolute path may be  c  webservices apache www   or  c  xampp htdocs   If you re working with Dreamweaver you can simplify the testing process by setting up your local server as a testing server in your project settings  Try it  It s easy  Once it s done  you can just press the browser icon with any of your files and it will open on localhost

User · Answer

You can do it by running with following command   php -S localhost 8888

User · Answer

I m not really sure what you mean  so I ll start simply   If the file you re trying to  run  is static content  like HTML or even Javascript  you don t need to run it on  localhost     you should just be able to open it from wherever it is on your machine in your browser   If it is a piece of server-side code  ASP  NET   php  whatever else  uou need to be running either a web server  or if you re using Visual Studio  start the development server for your application  F5 to debug  or CTRL F5 to start without debugging    If you re using a web server  you ll need to have a web site configured with the home directory set to the directory the file is in  or  just put the file in whatever home directory is configured    If you re using Visual Studio  the file just needs to be in your project

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