If you're currently taking this course as part of the web development master class you might recall
that in the beginning of this course we installed the lamp or MAP testing server on our local machine.
We did this specifically to be able to test our developed HP scripts on our computer without having
to upload them to a production server
if you have not done so already.
Launch your went or ma'am server to do that double click on the icon that looks like this this icon
may be on your desktop but if not then you can access it directly from the file path listed below or
through your start menu
the server will launch and you will see a small icon appear on your system tray
when the icon turns green.
It's an indication that the warm server has successfully started up and is running if you need a refresher
on how to configure the WAMP or map server.
Refer back to our section on setting up your testing server in order for us to test our scripts.
We need to make sure that we store our HP scripts inside the web root folder contained within the map
or wimp directory when you install them.
The main folders typically created inside your C drive so you need to open this folder so go ahead and
access it.
So here I am in the C drive and as you can see I have the folder lamp listed here.
If you're on a Mac machine you'll have map
if I double click in there we can see the w w w directory.
This is a very important folder.
All our websites need to be stored in this folder.
It's referred to as the web root folder
it's best to organize all your websites inside this folder.
So for example if we have four Web sites we would create four individual folders that would contain
the contents of each site for the purpose of this course.
Make a folder called P2P lessons
we'll store all our HP scripts in this folder so we can test them.
As we progressed through the course.