I have phped installed in XP without changing any of the preset variables and the run command works flawlessly, starting the srv server and showing the result in the output window.
However the same set up in Windows Vista Ultimate does not work and the logfile indicates: Unable to navigate to url:///file etc.
The srv server is up and running in vista, windows firewall is disabled and php.exe is allowed in the avg firewall.
The settings I can check are totally equal in XP and Vista. In XP no problem in Vista no dice.
For sure I'm missing out on something but I could not find a solution in the forum.
I checked that the php.exe and php.ini are in the php folder etc.etc.

you may want to check if SRV server (srv.exe) is not blocked by your firewall. It listens on TCP/80 port. Also, make sure that dbglistener is allowed to work on its 7869 port too.

I checked my firewall and both programs are allowed. windows firewall disabled.
the log message is
"Action", "running script: http://localhost:8080/file:/D:/Program%20Files/BadBlue/PE/fcarr_copy/index.htm", "22:54:07", ""
"Action", "navigating: http://localhost:8080/file:/D:/Program%20Files/BadBlue/PE/fcarr_copy/index.htm", "22:54:07", ""
"Action", "Failed to navigate to URL: http://localhost:8080/file:/D:/Program%20Files/BadBlue/PE/fcarr_copy/index.htm?DBGSESSID=-1&PHPEdHidden=34539", "22:54:09", "";
even stopping the firewall has no effect.

you may want to check SRV logs to make sure that if did not get the request (remained empty). If request did not come to the server, there is only one possible reason is OS (vista) networking subsystem that failed to work or blocked the connection.

Hi

I am getting similar problems - Failed to navigate to URL: http://etc-etc-etc

However it doesnt happen all the time so would appear not to be related to a firewall issue?? DBg Listenener, Embedded browser and web server are all set up within windows (Vista Business) Firewall and i've even added the port 7869

I have the source code both locally on my Vista PC and on a local linux server so I do my editing in windows and save/ftp to the local linux server for doing "remote debug" testing before uploading to the live linux servers. Some pages work fine and others don't but even those that don't, if i put a breakpoint on the last line of the script, the Output tab in the debugger at the bottom shows the expected HTML code has been generated successfully and then pressing F9 to carry on then generates the error

Any thoughts ?

Tony Byng
Business Development Manager
The Company Merchant Limited

In order to get phped working with remote web server, you need to check firewall rules for outbound connections at remote TCP/80 and TCP/443 ports (http and https respectively) for all the applications, or at least for phped.exe. Also, you need to allow remote web server to connect to your local TCP/7869 port for dbglistener.exe application (or whatever port you use there) .


It's known that Windows firewall is a bit broken and sometimes it passes connections that are supposed to be blocked. It may explain why sometimes you get the URL working. If you have any other firewall, antivirus, antispyware, and anti*anything*, you may want to check them too. Them may make some influence on HTTP traffic on your machine and cause browser to fail depending on the content or wordings in the URL. Just to give you some idea, I made a screenshot of sunbelt's settings related to web traffic. For example if your url contains "popup", it will be blocked by sunbelt:



Regarding breakpoints, please read manual and FAQ. There is nothing uncommon you faced up with. If nothing helps, please contact support and they will guide you through all the settings to get everything to work.