newbie needs help please??

[rikiki]

hi all, I have built a page in HTML and have attached a CSS to it and have been able to preview it in different browsers and it looks just the way i wanted

 

but when I tried to run it locally so I can test it (through XAMPP) the result is not even remotely similar. my background images don't appear, nothing is centered as it should be and basically all of my CSS formatting is just gone.

 

can anyone please explain to me what I need to do in order to run an HTML page with some CSS formatting through a PHP server? I've been told I only need to change the extension from .html to .php but that's not working. i'm new to PHP so I could really use some help

 

thanks a bunch

[jlhaslip]

First of all, there is no need to run the html file through the php parser UNLESS there is some php in the file.

Secondly, XAMPP provides a folder named htdocs which is where the file needs to be located in order to have the file parsed via php.

Thirdly, you access the file from your browser using http://localhost/folder/filename.php as the URL for the file to be parsed. The file needs to be in the htdocs folder.

Four: make sure the Apache Server is started.

Edited January 27, 2009 by jlhaslip

[falkencreative]

...and, just in case... make sure that the CSS file is in the correct location. Based on your comments, it sounds like the HTML/PHP page can't find the CSS file.

[rikiki]

it worked thanks a lot