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sweeper33
sweeper33

Reputation: 15

php file not accessible when url typed in to browser

I tried to search for this on the forums, but I don't know exactly what my issue is called. I hope this isn't redundant to another forum or a really stupid question. This is also my first post, so I read through what I need to put in this question, but please help me learn if I forgot to include something.

I FTPed a .php file over to my server into the /public_html folder which is where my index.php file are as well as everything else that I can get to show in my web browser (chrome). The file is named game-response-confirmation.php. I have the permissions for this file set to 777 on the server as well just for testing purposes (i'd like to set them back to 644 when I'm done if that doesn't have to do with the issue).

The issue is when I type in the url www.mywebaddress.com/game-response-confirmation.php into the address bar, I receive a 404 Not Found error. It says that the file was not found on this server.

To be honest, I'm not sure what other information you need to help troubleshoot this issue with me. Ask and I will provide more information.

For this, I would expect the page game-response-confirmation.php to appear as a webpage in the browser. Currently, the website is a simple echo since I needed to make sure it wasn't the php file that was creating the problem.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1578

Answers (2)

sweeper33
sweeper33

Reputation: 15

Golka had a great suggestion. going into the .htaccess file gives some information about what is going on. It told me, indirectly, that my host was switching over the server. So I was able to investigate and figure out that they are in the middle of the migration. Because of this, I didn't have the new server information and was uploading the .php page to the old server while the domain was pointed to the new server. So of course this file wasn't available! Silly. Thank you all for suggestions and help.

Upvotes: 0

Golka
Golka

Reputation: 73

Look at ".htaccess" file. Perhaps there is wrong redirection inside. For instance:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

Third line obtains all URLs and sends them to unknown place. In result you get error #404.

Upvotes: 1

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