Moving site from localhost to live server. PHP not loading on page.

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GamerOC

439 posts

Ultimate Geek

# 140831 21-Feb-2014 12:25

Hi Geekzone and thank you for reading this post,

I have develped my first website with multiple pages and many of the pages have php content embed in them.

I design and build the site using expression web 4 and during the develpment i was able to test the pages loading the php embed data in them just by adding server host number to the hyperlink
it seemed like the page went through the development server then post it the data.

Now i upload the site to my live server and my php content is not loading so i was wondering if anyone could helpme, i spent hours in Google but most people use wordpress and my host does not have any user interface setup just do everything through dreamweaver or expression web.

my local host url looks like

localhost:25888/folder/webpage and it loads
my pages in live server are trying to connect to my localhost address but i dont know what to put as new address link?

please help me out I did google it and could no find a way to sort it out,

Kind regards,

Andrew

kenkeniff

563 posts

Ultimate Geek
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# 991758 21-Feb-2014 12:31

Open up Notepad.

Enter the bold:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Save as info.php

Upload that to your web server and navigate to it to check PHP is working correctly.

kenkeniff

563 posts

Ultimate Geek
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# 991763 21-Feb-2014 12:36

Sorry, I was going to mention in your previous thread to maybe avoid Expression Engine and the likes as it sounds like it has a built in web server / does a lot of stuff 'automagically' and may give you a false / confusing idea about how your app will run on a real server environment etc if you're new to PHP.

I would recommend starting with XAMPP for your local server environment and doing your coding in something simple like Notepad++, then progress to something like Netbeans.

charsleysa

597 posts

Ultimate Geek
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# 991842 21-Feb-2014 14:45

Expression engine is fine to use but you have to learn how to set up php. It sounds like you maybe using short tags and the production server doesn't have short tags turned on.

Regards
Stefan Andres Charsley

kenkeniff

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Ultimate Geek
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# 991844 21-Feb-2014 14:49

*Expression Web not Expression Engine

charsleysa

597 posts

Ultimate Geek
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# 991847 21-Feb-2014 14:53

I've used expression web and its ok but its too much for designers and not for coders, so I used web matrix.

Regards
Stefan Andres Charsley

GamerOC

439 posts

Ultimate Geek

# 991875 21-Feb-2014 16:07

thank you all for your replies, yes i used expression web because it seemed quit user friendly and plenty of tutorials in youtube.

what i did is

1- created a Master page for all templates to look same
2-index page and i put buttons with links to the content pages 30 pages in fact
3- each content page i saved it as PHP as it would not let me add PHP code into HTML without changing file extension.
4- I placed a <div=id....named content etc. <div> i made it in the master page and made it the only part of the template that can be edited.
5- in every content PHP page i placed the PHP code inside the <div> named content and wallah when i test it online it pulls data perfectly into the page. {even thought is running through localhost still pulling data from online database.
6- upload it site with filezilla via ftp and site load index.htm perfectly but content pages load without any content like if php was ignored.

sorry i write too much stuff but thanks again for you replies I will play around with it again,

Andrew

charsleysa

597 posts

Ultimate Geek
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# 991876 21-Feb-2014 16:12

GamerOC: thank you all for your replies, yes i used expression web because it seemed quit user friendly and plenty of tutorials in youtube.

what i did is

1- created a Master page for all templates to look same
2-index page and i put buttons with links to the content pages 30 pages in fact
3- each content page i saved it as PHP as it would not let me add PHP code into HTML without changing file extension.
4- I placed a <div=id....named content etc. <div> i made it in the master page and made it the only part of the template that can be edited.
5- in every content PHP page i placed the PHP code inside the <div> named content and wallah when i test it online it pulls data perfectly into the page. {even thought is running through localhost still pulling data from online database.
6- upload it site with filezilla via ftp and site load index.htm perfectly but content pages load without any content like if php was ignored.

sorry i write too much stuff but thanks again for you replies I will play around with it again,

Andrew

This may sound like a dumb question but a lot of people who don't know about servers seem to make this mistake:

Is php actually installed on the production server?
Does the phpinfo file like described above work?

Regards
Stefan Andres Charsley

kenkeniff

563 posts

Ultimate Geek
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# 991878 21-Feb-2014 16:15

And perhaps are you able to post a copy of one of your files so we can see how you've got it setup?

Getsited

28 posts

Geek
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# 991879 21-Feb-2014 16:18

My guess is you are using "absolute" URLS instead of "relative" ones.

An example of an absolute path is <img src="http://localhost/mypic.jpg">

An example of a relative path is <img src="/mypic.jpg">

There maybe a setting in your web development suite for setting this.. alternatively there might even be an export to bla site function. You could try those out.

And another question - is there a database for your website?

charsleysa

597 posts

Ultimate Geek
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# 991880 21-Feb-2014 16:21

Getsited: My guess is you are using "absolute" URLS instead of "relative" ones.

An example of an absolute path is <img src="http://localhost/mypic.jpg">

An example of a relative path is <img src="/mypic.jpg">

There maybe a setting in your web development suite for setting this.. alternatively there might even be an export to bla site function. You could try those out.

And another question - is there a database for your website?

One step at a time, currently we're trying to see if he's got php successfully set up

Regards
Stefan Andres Charsley

kenkeniff

563 posts

Ultimate Geek
+1 received by user: 89

# 991883 21-Feb-2014 16:29

GamerOC: thank you all for your replies, yes i used expression web because it seemed quit user friendly and plenty of tutorials in youtube.

what i did is

1- created a Master page for all templates to look same
2-index page and i put buttons with links to the content pages 30 pages in fact
3- each content page i saved it as PHP as it would not let me add PHP code into HTML without changing file extension.
4- I placed a <div=id....named content etc. <div> i made it in the master page and made it the only part of the template that can be edited.
5- in every content PHP page i placed the PHP code inside the <div> named content and wallah when i test it online it pulls data perfectly into the page. {even thought is running through localhost still pulling data from online database.
6- upload it site with filezilla via ftp and site load index.htm perfectly but content pages load without any content like if php was ignored.

sorry i write too much stuff but thanks again for you replies I will play around with it again,

Andrew

Remember PHP will only execute from within .php files.

*unless you have a non-standard server setup which you don't..