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Figure 1-4

6.

To test that Apache installed correctly, load

http://localhost/

using your web browser. An

XAMPP welcome screen like the one in Figure 1-5 should load.

7.

Finally, after you’ve tested that both Apache and PHP work, it’s recommended to turn on PHP

error reporting. Apache logs errors in a file named

error.log

, located in the

xampp\apache\

logs

folder; looking at the latest entries of this file when something goes wrong with your appli-

cation can be very helpful at times. To enable PHP error reporting, open for editing the

php.ini

configuration file, located by default in the

xampp\apache\bin\

folder. There, locate this entry:

display_errors = Off

and change it to:

display_errors = On

8.

To configure what kind of errors you want reported, you can alter the value of the PHP

error_reporting

value. We recommend the following setting to report all errors, except

for PHP notices:

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

Preparing the Working Folder

Now you’ll create a virtual host named

seophp.example.com

on your local machine, which will point

to a local folder named

seophp

. The

seophp

folder will be your working folder for all the exercises in

this book, and you’ll load the sample pages through

http://seophp.example.com

.

The

seophp.example.com

as virtual host won’t interfere with any existing online applications,

because

example.com

is a special domain name reserved by IANA to be used for documentation and

demonstration purposes. See

http://example.com

for the official information.

The XAMPP Control Panel is particularly useful when you need to stop or start the

Apache server. Every time you make a change to the Apache configuration files,

you’ll need to restart Apache.

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