Please launch your favorite web browser and type "127.0.0.1" into the address bar. When you do so, 4D should respond by sending a web page back to you.
If 4D does not respond, or you see a different web page, you should check to see if there are any other web servers running on TCP Port 80. If there are, you will need to shut those other web servers down, or configure 4D to respond on a different port (a setting in Database Properties). Also, make sure that 4D's Web Server is actually running, and that the HTML files are in the correct location, as described earlier in this tutorial.
If you do see the first page, you know everything is configured and working correctly. What you are looking at is a purely static HTML page. There are no "dynamic" elements to it whatsoever. It could have been served up by any HTTP server. For the first page, 4D functions strictly as a "classic" web server.
Before proceeding, check out the HTML source. You can either view the source in a text editor (open the "index.html" file saved in the Room4Rent html folder) or just "View Source" in your web browser. Here is what the source looks like:
In the picture above, a red circle was drawn to highlight a link to the "create_account.shtml" file. Again, thisis a 100% static page, but it contains a link to a document ending in ".shtml". Why is this significant? When the user clicks on the link, the "create_account.shtml" file will be requested from 4D's Web Server. Any time that 4D's Web Server responds to a request for a page that does not end in ".html" or ".htm", 4D will first look through that document for embedded 4D tags. In other words, this is your clue that the next page should have some dynamic elements. This behavior is described in the 4D Documentation.
Please click on the "Please click here to apply." link before proceeding to the next step.
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