# Installing your own php server w/Apachi tutorial

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**Created:** [September 16, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/installing-your-own-php-server-w-apachi-tutorial/64457 "2004-09-16T14:27:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![hamidb4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/898d66/32.png) [@hamidb4](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hamidb4)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/installing-your-own-php-server-w-apachi-tutorial/64457/1 "2004-09-16T14:27:03Z")

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hi’  
in page 2 of the tutorial i came accross:Lets do a quick-edit to the config file. Open up C:\web\conf\httpd.conf and search “LISTEN 80”. Replace that with “LISTEN localhost:80” so it will focus the connection on port 80 (web-browser default) only for you. Now that’s dedicated!

Next, search “localhost” until you find “ServerName localhost:80”. Make sure it is set so, because without our pointer ‘localhost’ the website cannot be accessed.  
well, I could not find LISTEN80. What am I doing wrong? I use windows xp.  
Thanks alot.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/installing-your-own-php-server-w-apachi-tutorial/64457/2 "2004-09-16T14:30:43Z")

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if you downloaded the newest versions of php and apache, it is most likely that listen localhost:80 is already set, also you could make a php page and add it your root and see if it works properly when you viewit eg: [http://localhost/filename.php](http://localhost/filename.php)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/installing-your-own-php-server-w-apachi-tutorial/64457/3 "2004-09-16T14:35:08Z")

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I did that and it seems to be working fine. When I progressed to php and html tutorial the file rain.php came up blank.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/installing-your-own-php-server-w-apachi-tutorial/64457/4 "2004-09-16T14:39:55Z")

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In addition to Listen80, I also did not find: DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var when I searched for it as it instruct you to do so.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/installing-your-own-php-server-w-apachi-tutorial/64457/5 "2004-09-16T19:18:36Z")

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I got it working. Thanks