Need Help with 404 error

[Guest]

Hello,

I have completed the local folder, tesing server, and remote server setup correctly  (i think so).

My testing setup and files shown below:

My local folder for site shown below:

My advanced settings shown below:

I have downloaded all the files to the local folder from my remote server which are working fine on the live website http://www.caremoreconstruction.co.uk.

No layouts of the files/folders etc have been changed, I simply moved them over from the FTP server in to local folder I had created.

Just to confirm I have XAMPP installed and Apache runnining.

When I open DW CS5 and select the index.php file form the FILES tab, the main home page opens up and I little bar comes up at the top and says "This page has server proccesing directives that design view cannot display. Switch to Live View".

So I click on Live View and the home page loads up. I then press ctrl and click one of the links. (See picture below)

For some reason I am getting the following error message when I click on my links.

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Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.

If you think this is a server error, please contact thewebmaster.

Error 404

localhost
12/30/10 11:58:51
Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.1 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1

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Please can someone help me!!

Regards

James

[SBradleyFL]

I guess I'm one of the rare few. I have read through this post, as well as several others, in hopes of finding the answer to my problem. I haven't seen any posts that specifically match my problems and/or that offer a viable solution.  In several, the referenced links within the Adobe site are broken.

I am very new to Dreamweaver and this type of site development, so please forgive me if my terminology/phrasing is off.  Hopefully you can muddle through my ignorance and I'll wade through your intelligence. I am using a combination of Dreamweaver and Wordpress with WAMPServer based on an extensive video tutorial. (The challenge may be in that the tutorial utilized a slightly older version of Dreamweaver. Maybe I'm transposing which information goes where or missing something vital as the site definition/start screens are no longer the same.)

I'm attempting to work/test from my local computer before going to remote files. I've followed all the steps carefully and repeated them several times now with the thought I might have missed something.  That doesn't seem to be the case. For some reason, I am unable to utilize the "live view" feature. In some instances (such as my homepage) I see the code in code/split view, but see nothing in design or live view.  In others, I see the code/design in the respective views, but continue to receive the HTTP 404 Error when I attempt to utilize the "live view." I was unable to attach a sample of the error message, but it appears something fairly common. Basically it's the HTTP 404 Error that notes a file was not found and suggests that .php files in my root folder are not being executed by the server or that my root folder is not mapped to the URL on my testing server and to verify that the URL Prefix maps to the root. 

I've read in another thread that the fact I'm receiving this error means my server is working properly, but that my site definition is likely incorrect. Unfortunately, this is one of the posts with a broken reference link so I'm still at a loss. According to the tutorial, I set my root as c:/wamp/www/explore_ca/ and my URL Prefix as http://localhost/  (I've tried using http://localhost/explore_ca as well, but read elsewhere not to use a file name.  Regardless, I received the same error message either way.)

I am losing my mind here and on an extremely short budget for time.  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!