Re: lame-o needs help with preview sites
chip - it's REALLY annoying when reality doesn't back me up on what i want to do! 8-) i'll check out the alternative you mentioned, and post if it works out. thanks again for your help. bruce On Feb 6, 7:10 pm, Chip Warden chip.war...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 6, 2012, at 8:28 PM, blinde wrote: i guess a better phrased question would be: when i drag and drop a file from the desktop to an open browser window, it shows as file:/// Users/blinde/Desktop/index.php. i want it to go through localhost, so the php gets rendered. maybe some kind of .htaccess re-write trick? is there a way to 'trick' the browser into doing this, when 'Sites' and 'Desktop' are folders that exist at the same level in my home directory? help, mr. wizards! No. The browser only renders the document sent to it. PHP is a server side processing language; on the Mac, the PHP interpreter runs through Apache. If you drag and drop files to your browser, they are NOT being processed by the Apache/PHP combination, and thus will not be rendered as HTML, but rather as plain text files containing PHP code. There is no going through localhost -- localhost is just the name that Apache responds to on your local machine. You might check out VirtualHostX (http://clickontyler.com/virtualhostx/). This application provides a graphical front end to Apache's Virtual Host functionality, and might help you do something similar to what you want to do. As far as I know, however, you will NOT be able to drag and drop raw PHP files to a web browser and have them render through Apache/PHP automagically. Chip -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: lame-o needs help with preview sites
On Feb 6, 2012, at 10:05 PM, blinde wrote: it's REALLY annoying when reality doesn't back me up on what i want to do! 8-) Yeah, I hate that, too. ;) Chip -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
lame-o needs help with preview sites
guys - i've got my environment set up so i can work in php using bbedit, and then just hit control+command+p to preview any file i'm working on in the browser of my choice. the php renders just fine... as long as the file is anywhere under ~Sites. i often end up with php files on my desktop, and want to be able to open them in bbedit, make a quick tweak or not, and then preview as above... with the php rendering just as if it were under ~Sites. under 'setup', i currently have: site name: dev server url: localhost/ path on server: ~blinde/ default page: index.php addressing: automatic local site root: blinde-Sites use local preview server: yes this works. i made a copy, called dev 2, and tried variations on the 'path on server' setting, to new avail. i want to be able to preview correctly rendered php pages located under ~Sites AND off my desktop. how do i do this? more info: HOSTS FILE 7 127.0.0.1 localhost 8 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost 9 ::1 localhost 10 fe80::1%lo0 localhost 13 file:///Users/blinde/Sites/ 14 file:///Users/blinde/Desktop/ apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file 28 VirtualHost *:80 29 DocumentRoot /Users/blinde/Sites/ 30 ServerName localhost 31 /VirtualHost 32 33 VirtualHost *:80 34 DocumentRoot /Users/blinde/Desktop/ 35 ServerName localhost 36 /VirtualHost am i even mucking about in the right place? again, i want to be able to preview correctly rendered php pages located under ~Sites AND off my desktop. i definitely want to be able to do this via bbedit, but also wouldn't mind being able to drag-and- drop a php file from the desktop into an open browser window such that the page gets rendered correctly (ok, that last one isn't a bbedit thing...) how do i do this? idiot-proof instructions and/or pointers to applicable tutorials would be appreciated! thanks, bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: lame-o needs help with preview sites
Hi Bruce I am not sure if you are going to be able to get this to work as you expect… Having http://localhost point to two directories is a bit of a conflict… Also, PHP files are not processed, by default, in Mac OS X, though php5 does ship with it. Here are some sites that might help you get to where you want to go: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6790568/how-do-you-get-php-working-on-mac-os-x-lion-10-7 http://akrabat.com/php/setting-up-php-mysql-on-os-x-10-7-lion/ Also note that each `website` in BBEdit can only support one `Preview Server` at a time. Hope this gets you in the right direction, Jamie On Feb 4, 7:45 pm, blinde bruce.li...@gmail.com wrote: guys - i've got my environment set up so i can work in php using bbedit, and then just hit control+command+p to preview any file i'm working on in the browser of my choice. the php renders just fine... as long as the file is anywhere under ~Sites. i often end up with php files on my desktop, and want to be able to open them in bbedit, make a quick tweak or not, and then preview as above... with the php rendering just as if it were under ~Sites. under 'setup', i currently have: site name: dev server url: localhost/ path on server: ~blinde/ default page: index.php addressing: automatic local site root: blinde-Sites use local preview server: yes this works. i made a copy, called dev 2, and tried variations on the 'path on server' setting, to new avail. i want to be able to preview correctly rendered php pages located under ~Sites AND off my desktop. how do i do this? more info: HOSTS FILE 7 127.0.0.1 localhost 8 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost 9 ::1 localhost 10 fe80::1%lo0 localhost 13 file:///Users/blinde/Sites/ 14 file:///Users/blinde/Desktop/ apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file 28 VirtualHost *:80 29 DocumentRoot /Users/blinde/Sites/ 30 ServerName localhost 31 /VirtualHost 32 33 VirtualHost *:80 34 DocumentRoot /Users/blinde/Desktop/ 35 ServerName localhost 36 /VirtualHost am i even mucking about in the right place? again, i want to be able to preview correctly rendered php pages located under ~Sites AND off my desktop. i definitely want to be able to do this via bbedit, but also wouldn't mind being able to drag-and- drop a php file from the desktop into an open browser window such that the page gets rendered correctly (ok, that last one isn't a bbedit thing...) how do i do this? idiot-proof instructions and/or pointers to applicable tutorials would be appreciated! thanks, bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: lame-o needs help with preview sites
jamie - i appreciate the links, but i've already visited them and more. i've got php running just fine... as long as a .php file is anywhere in my Sites folder (where i keep separate folders for all my client websites), and i preview it using LOCALHOST, all is well. the page gets rendered, life is good. i guess a better phrased question would be: when i drag and drop a file from the desktop to an open browser window, it shows as file:/// Users/blinde/Desktop/index.php. i want it to go through localhost, so the php gets rendered. maybe some kind of .htaccess re-write trick? is there a way to 'trick' the browser into doing this, when 'Sites' and 'Desktop' are folders that exist at the same level in my home directory? help, mr. wizards! On Feb 6, 12:04 pm, jamiepeloquin jamiepeloq...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bruce I am not sure if you are going to be able to get this to work as you expect… Havinghttp://localhostpoint to two directories is a bit of a conflict… Also, PHP files are not processed, by default, in Mac OS X, though php5 does ship with it. Here are some sites that might help you get to where you want to go:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6790568/how-do-you-get-php-working...http://akrabat.com/php/setting-up-php-mysql-on-os-x-10-7-lion/ Also note that each `website` in BBEdit can only support one `Preview Server` at a time. Hope this gets you in the right direction, Jamie On Feb 4, 7:45 pm, blinde bruce.li...@gmail.com wrote: guys - i've got my environment set up so i can work in php using bbedit, and then just hit control+command+p to preview any file i'm working on in the browser of my choice. the php renders just fine... as long as the file is anywhere under ~Sites. i often end up with php files on my desktop, and want to be able to open them in bbedit, make a quick tweak or not, and then preview as above... with the php rendering just as if it were under ~Sites. under 'setup', i currently have: site name: dev server url: localhost/ path on server: ~blinde/ default page: index.php addressing: automatic local site root: blinde-Sites use local preview server: yes this works. i made a copy, called dev 2, and tried variations on the 'path on server' setting, to new avail. i want to be able to preview correctly rendered php pages located under ~Sites AND off my desktop. how do i do this? more info: HOSTS FILE 7 127.0.0.1 localhost 8 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost 9 ::1 localhost 10 fe80::1%lo0 localhost 13 file:///Users/blinde/Sites/ 14 file:///Users/blinde/Desktop/ apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file 28 VirtualHost *:80 29 DocumentRoot /Users/blinde/Sites/ 30 ServerName localhost 31 /VirtualHost 32 33 VirtualHost *:80 34 DocumentRoot /Users/blinde/Desktop/ 35 ServerName localhost 36 /VirtualHost am i even mucking about in the right place? again, i want to be able to preview correctly rendered php pages located under ~Sites AND off my desktop. i definitely want to be able to do this via bbedit, but also wouldn't mind being able to drag-and- drop a php file from the desktop into an open browser window such that the page gets rendered correctly (ok, that last one isn't a bbedit thing...) how do i do this? idiot-proof instructions and/or pointers to applicable tutorials would be appreciated! thanks, bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: lame-o needs help with preview sites
On Feb 6, 2012, at 8:28 PM, blinde wrote: i guess a better phrased question would be: when i drag and drop a file from the desktop to an open browser window, it shows as file:/// Users/blinde/Desktop/index.php. i want it to go through localhost, so the php gets rendered. maybe some kind of .htaccess re-write trick? is there a way to 'trick' the browser into doing this, when 'Sites' and 'Desktop' are folders that exist at the same level in my home directory? help, mr. wizards! No. The browser only renders the document sent to it. PHP is a server side processing language; on the Mac, the PHP interpreter runs through Apache. If you drag and drop files to your browser, they are NOT being processed by the Apache/PHP combination, and thus will not be rendered as HTML, but rather as plain text files containing PHP code. There is no going through localhost -- localhost is just the name that Apache responds to on your local machine. You might check out VirtualHostX (http://clickontyler.com/virtualhostx/). This application provides a graphical front end to Apache's Virtual Host functionality, and might help you do something similar to what you want to do. As far as I know, however, you will NOT be able to drag and drop raw PHP files to a web browser and have them render through Apache/PHP automagically. Chip -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
