I'm trying to follow a tutorial for my first php project in netbeans. I select new php application name it and then simply type echo("anything")
in the php portion of index.php and when I run it I always get the error Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to localhost. I don't understand why because I also have a Java web application(selection from netbeans) and when I put stuff in the html I can get things to run just fine. How can I get rid of this issue?
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Nick L
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Make sure that PHP is running on your machine (XAMP or WAMP) and it should be echo "anything";
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Is that something that is included in the PHP download, or will I have to download that separately? – Nick L Apr 18 '14 at 16:06
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no, you need to download XAMPP or WAMP separately. https://www.apachefriends.org/ http://www.wampserver.com/ Download one of these. Start the server and you are good to go. – mfsymb Apr 18 '14 at 16:11
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PHP requires that the PHP parser is running on a server. The error comes from a lack of this. HTML requires no parser so it can be sent as is. The java web application may have a module to enable PHP, and you likely need to either enable it or tell it where a PHP binary is; if not both.
Alternatively, you can use XAMPP/MAMPP to host the server; just make sure it is not running on the same port as your java host.
You can get XAMPP/MAMPP here: www.apachefriends.org
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