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IE won't open local PHP files anymore!

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**IE won't open local PHP files anymore!**

Aug 11th, 2005

Hello everyone. First post...

I have a strange problem... used to be that Internet Explorer 6 would open PHP files that I had stored on my local machine (which is not a server). I would usually get some kind of "pop-up" warning from IE asking me if I wanted to view the file but then after that I could view the file just fine (minus the actual scripting stuff of course).

Now, whenever I try to open one of these PHP files with IE, I get the hourglass for 2 seconds and then nothing. No IE window, no error. Nothing.

IE will open up on its own and I can browse PHP files on the Internet all day long with no problems. But the ones on my local machine no longer open, where before they would even though I am not running any kind of server technology.

IE will also open HTML and CSS files on the local machine with no problem, just not PHP. Firefox has no issues at all with any files.

I'm running XP SP2 on a very stable machine that is rarely allowed internet access and is very strongly protected with Norton AV, ZoneAlarm and AdAware. I only use IE to check the websites that I personally build so little chance of picking up something nasty on the Net.

I've even tried reloading an older Ghost file that I *knew* didn't exhibit this problem but it does it even with that which is even more peculiar.

Any ideas?

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**Re: IE won't open local PHP files anymore!**

Aug 11th, 2005

Without some sort of server running, I don't see why it would open a php file, let alone parse it. You should be opening php files that reside on your local system via a text editor.

Firefox: no, its not the end all solution, it has its own issues and in time it will be just as insecure as IE, when its hit Firefox 6, if it makes it that far. Oh, and AOL pays for it, incase you didn't know.

Microsoft & Windows: If you hate it so much, move to linux, or bsd, or anything else, stop complaning and move on.
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**Re: IE won't open local PHP files anymore!**

Aug 11th, 2005

Thanks for the response.

Actually I build the pages in Dreamweaver and/or Notepad but I need to see how they render (quickly) on my local machine in both Firefox and IE. IE used to do this with a pop-up warning but won't do anything now. Firefox *does* do this with no problem. It's not parsing any of the scripting but it does show the HTML elements in the PHP page so that I can see how the page is going to display visually in browsers.

I work on quite a few sites at the same time and don't want to install a server technoology on my local machine if I don't have to. I just want to create, click and view instantaneously. In Dreamweaver, there is a way to view the pages instantly, but again the IE option doesn't cooperate where Firefox does. It *used* to work so I know it's capable. Just need to figure out what's wrong.