local test wampserver

[Anonymous]

During installation you would have been given a root address for the server, this is what I think you are referring to as your top level. Apache will only process files from this location*.

So if the apache root is www.

windoze/index.php # can't execute this
wamp/html #can't execute here
wamp/html/www #can execute here
wamp/html/www/includes #can execute files in this location
wamp/html/www/includes/index.php #can
wamp/html/www/index.php # can execute this

* this can be changed but it's not worth it unless you have a genuine reason to do it; if you later upload these files to a web server it will break.

 

[Anonymous]

Are you using

localhost/folder1/test.php

typed into the address bar of your browser?

 

[Anonymous]

Try this

test2.php // new file

echo "Testing\n";
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors", 1);
echo $should_be_an_error;#Undefined variable
include 'folder1/test.php'

save it in your root folder and execute it.