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CdCooley
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December 30, 2010
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View .PHP page in Live view

  • December 30, 2010
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Hope this is in the right place

I'm, having some trouble with CS5. I have a .php page containing no html that I would like to see in Live view. The page is hosted on a local server and runs just fine when I go to preview, or open it in Chrome/Firefox/IE outside of Dreamweaver. As such I'm assuming the WAMP Server i'm running for testing isn't the issue.

When I open the page and select Live View I get the loading bar just above and to the far right side of the properties inspector, but the design view remains completely white as if nothing is there.

Apache Version :
2.2.17 
PHP Version :
5.3.3

If you guys have any ideas please let me know

Thank you very much in advance

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Correct answer David_Powers

The following article describes how to set up a PHP testing server in Dreamweaver CS5:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/setup_php.html. It goes through the entire process of installing XAMPP. If you already have WAMP installed, you can jump straight to the section that deals with defining a site and testing server. The WAMP equivalent of C:\xampp\htdocs is C:\wamp\www.

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David_Powers
David_PowersCorrect answer
Inspiring
December 31, 2010

The following article describes how to set up a PHP testing server in Dreamweaver CS5:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/setup_php.html. It goes through the entire process of installing XAMPP. If you already have WAMP installed, you can jump straight to the section that deals with defining a site and testing server. The WAMP equivalent of C:\xampp\htdocs is C:\wamp\www.

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CdCooleyAuthor
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January 2, 2011

Thank you David, that helped me out.

I was able to solve the problem after playing around with it for a bit. It seems that if I navigate from within Live View (starting from  /localhost/) to my webpage all of a sudden it shows up. Still not sure why, but it works, so I'm happy.

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