Did you upload your newly-named wp-config.php file to the server by ftp?
i’m locally hosting it using MAMP
so it’s just my local folder
Sorry, outside my area of competence (such as it is).
And the page had php all over it
My guess is that your server is not configured to run the PHP.
i’m not sure what that means
my server is running PHP 5 – and my friend is running wordpress with PHP 5…?
Otto42 – Mamp is like Xampp.
Not sure how much Mac support you’ll get here but confirm for us the path you are using? Does it allow for port as per these instructions? http://michaeldoig.net/4/installing-mamp-and-wordpress.htm
yeleek: That’s all well and good, but if he’s getting PHP code output to the browser, then it’s still configured incorrectly. Doesn’t matter what it’s “like”.
Apache is Apache, even when you stick it inside another package.
The point is Mamp blatantly supports wordpress as the link i pointed to and indeed codex shows. Stating that ‘My guess is that your server is not configured to run the PHP’ doesn’t give a newbie much help does it?
Stating that ‘My guess is that your server is not configured to run the PHP’ doesn’t give a newbie much help does it?
Well, what help do you suggest? All I can do is point out that it’s not a WordPress problem and possibly direct him to the support forums for whatever server he’s running.
I’ve never heard of “MAMP”. I have no idea what it is. So I offer what information I do have: His server is configured incorrectly. Why? Hell if I know. I’d suggest asking on these “MAMP” support forums why their server is configured incorrectly.
I thought simply telling him what the problem was would be enough. He knows what server he’s running. If he doesn’t know that much, then he shouldn’t be running it. He did say that he’s running it locally, so calling him a “newbie” is unjustified, setting up a server is not a newbie thing to do.
Either way, these are the WordPress support forums, not the MAMP support forums.