install on localhost

[dattuso]

Hi I'm having trouble. I have looked through the documentation and fourms and have not found a solution.

I have a Windows 7 machine with an Apache2 server.

The server works fine when I goto localhost in my web browser I get my index.html page as expected.

but when I goto localhost/formtools I get a list of the files that are in that directory. Also, I have stopped and restared the server just in case that was it and I get the same list.

I will add that I have not installed php or mySQL on this machine. Maybe thats the problem.

To elaborate. I have inherited formtools from my predicessor and have no idea how to use them. I'm suposed to be running this site: http://vdfp.us/ and it uses formtools. I have been looking for a tutorial for complete beginners on this tool but everything seems to start 2 steps ahead of where I am.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
Diana

[Joe]

Hi Diana,

You will definitely need PHP and MySQL installed on your machine to run Form Tools. Here are the system requirements for Form Tools: http://docs.formtools.org/userdoc/?page=...quirements

Here's a good place to start on learning Form Tools: http://docs.formtools.org/userdoc/?page=...tools_does

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Joe