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Go to your httpd-vhosts.conf and add the following:

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<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
 DocumentRoot C:/XAMPP/xampp/htdocs
 ServerName localhost

 <Directory "C:/XAMPP/xampp/htdocs">
 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
 AllowOverride All
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Now you can access your virtual hosts and if you do http://localhost or you click under admin on the menu, you will find the XAMPP start page as well.

Regards,
MEM

Thanks this was a great help, I was struggling to find out why local host wouldn't work for two days before I found this, now it does.

However, I still can't navigate along a path to open .php files in subfolders on the local host.

e.g. "http://localhost/htdocs/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php"

I always get "Object not Found..... Error 404" in i IE8. I have tried various different paths to different files and always get the same thing.

I am running Windows XP Pro SP3. This is a clean reinstallation of Windows especially for XAMPP.

I am very new to this as you might gather. Any ideas as to where I am going wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help

Frogmella wrote:e.g. "http://localhost/htdocs/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php"

localhost automatically routes to your htdocs folder (or have you a htdocs folder inside your htdocs folder?)

Altrea wrote:

Frogmella wrote:e.g. "http://localhost/htdocs/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php"

localhost automatically routes to your htdocs folder (or have you a htdocs folder inside your htdocs folder?)

I believe Altrea got it quite accurate. You don't need to type htdocs our your URL. Unless if you have a htdocs folder inside your htdocs folder, If you just do:
http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php - you will probably find your .php file.


K. Regards,
MEM

Thanks again, doing as you suggest eliminated the 404 error, install still didn't run, but thats another problem altogether.

I seem to have lost the root of this question, what was the purpose of setting up vhosts in this context?

Is it to enable multiple hostnames? or is the intent to run multiple WordPress blogs?

Just trying to get my head around the reasoning.

Good Luck

I think it was to set up vhosts correctly so that when you type "localhost" into a browser you get the XAMPP admin screen. I had set them up incorrectly and "localhost" would only return a 404 error in the browser until I corrected the htppd-vhosts.conf file as shown in this thread.

What does happen when you enter http://localhost/worpress/wp-admin/install.php in your browser?

Sometimes, if the process started, but failed, its best to cleanout the WP folders AND the wp tables in MYSQL.

Good Luck