[wdvltalk-social] OT ;-) Can't upload to localhost

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting joseph harris <smilepoet at vfemail.net>:

> I'm sure I haven't forgotten that much...
>
> I have [for the third time] installed EasyPHP2 - apache, mysql and   
> php.   I have unzipped Wordpress and tried to upload first with   
> Smartftp and now with Coreftp.
>
> The result seems to be that while the socket and port are located,   
> the server does not respond.   the coreftp message is:
> Connect socket #428 to 127.0.0.1, port 80...
> Can't establish connection --> 127.0.0.1:80 @ Mon Jul 07 10:54:46   
> 2008   (0-38)
>
> And variations of this have been occuring during all my attempts.     
> I can't believe I had a working server, website and wordpress on   
> localhost years back, and can't now put in updated versions....
>
> ...How has it all gone wrong...?   ;-)

Ummm, if it's localhost - i.e. the machine that you are typing all the  
commands on - why are you using FTP?

Why not just copy the files from the unzipped directory to  
C:\blah\foo\apache2\root or whatever the easy php web root is?

Also, FTP probably won't wotk on port 80 - that's a webserver.  Try  
port 21 instead...

Cheers,

M.

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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/