I am stuck at the moment. I have created my first project and I am working on a secure login page.
Tutorial: Paul Strydom 06. Creating a secure Wappler Login page
I am running xampp on my local machine and I have saved the wappler project in C:\xdata - wappler\myProject. I want to keep all my projects in this folder (backup task running).
How can I alter the path to my project, in case I want to rename the project folder?
C:\xdata - wappler\myProjectNewFolderName
How can I connect to my MySQL local xampp database?
I go to settings and then
General > Project Name: myProject
General > Links relative to: Document
General > Server Modal: PHP
Targets > Target Name: ???
Targets > Web Server URL: ???
Targets > Access Type: Local Folder
Targets > Local Folder: ???
I am just not sure about what "Target " means.
Is there a way to run scheduled backups with Wappler with everything included (database schema)?
Targets > Local Folder: file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/myProject
So where does Wappler SAVE my project now?
Will the xampp folder now be the path to project?
That would mean I have to save all my projects within the xampp folder.
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How about the database? Does Wappler save the database schema upon deploy or how should we setup our backup? Right now my backup includes the whole xampp folder.
i tried different settings with project targets. i was able to connect, but i still can’t create a server side action > connect database. It says with connection properties:
You have to specify Remote Target in Project Options and Activate it first!
I am still confused on what to enter with my target. i have xampp installed and my project folder is within C:\xampp\htdocs
I may be speaking out of turn here because i do not use local targets, and probably havent for the last 5 years, so this is just my best guess.
With a local server like wamp/xampp you have an FTP server installed as well as an apache web server and a mysql server, now even though those are locally available on your machine in a folder like C:/xampp/htdocs/ they are also accessable from an ip address of 127.0.0.1 and/or a domain name of localhost.
So if it were me, my setup would be something like
New Project > Project Name: myProject
New Project > Project Folder: C:/My Documents/Whatever Your Project Is Called
New Project > Type: Website
New Project > Links Relative To: Site Root
New Project > Server Modal: PHP
Thats takes care of the local side, as you can see I pretended like we do not even have a server at this point, I am just placing the project folder inside My Documents or wherever you want, just not inside xampp/htdocs/
Then my new project opens, I click the targets gear icon and hit the Plus button to add another target.
Project Settings > Target Name: Whatever My Project is called
Project Settings > Web Server URL: http://127.0.0.1
Project Settings > Access Type: FTP
Project Settings > FTP Server: 127.0.0.1
Project Settings > Port: Leave Black for Default
Project Settings > Remote Directory: /htdocs/
Project Settings > User: Whatever you setup in your xampp setup of the FTP server
Project Settings > Password: Whatever you setup in your xampp setup of the FTP server
Project Settings > Use Active: OFF
SAVE
So bascally we are pretending to Wappler that this is a real server as such, with an FTP account, with an Apache web server, with a MySQL server and user accounts with privlidges setup and phpMyAdmin or Navicat etc. and can be access remotely at 127.0.0.1
Paul, all of these complicated steps are not required. He doesn’t need to use FTP.
All you need to do @WatchThatCode is to make sure to select the created target from the dropdown at the bottom of the screen, when you create it and save it.
Your target is properly configured, no need of FTP for server running on your local server!
I suppose that makes sense. I am glad I only use remote connections, seems like an easier way to me. Thanks @Teodor, I think at some stage I will install a local server just to see how it works myself.
