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Hi,
When I click on my website's link I am being redirected to the XAMPP page. Also if I type http://localhost I am being redirected to the XAMPP page instead of my website's page.

How do I fix this?

Hi,
I just read where someone on here asked a similar question and was told the question was in the wrong forum. My XAMPP page is coming up when I type localhost, so from what I read I am having a WordPress issue and not an XAMPP issue. I will direct my question to the WordPress forum.

I also just read you guys are volunteers. I'd like to take the time to thank you for your time and helping us out. Your time is appreciated! Thank you!!!

Did you ever fix this? I'm having the same thing happen and i"m not using wordpress. My folder is in htdocs and when i type help.mydomain.com it shows the xampp page.

Hi,
in the directory 'http://localhost' (means filefolder 'C:\xampp\htdocs', if you installed XAMPP as recommanded) there is a index.htm which redirects you. Rename it.

I did the default install for xampp so i assume that is the recommended. Default install folder c:\xampp and have my files located in c:\xampp\htdocs\helpdesk. Even after completely removed the index.html file I now get index of / and it looks like it is the contents of the c:\xampp\htdocs folder.

I have installed xampp before and had this working just find and for some reason can't seem to figure out the little thing i'm missing to make this work.

WilliL wrote:Hi,
in the directory 'http://localhost' (means filefolder 'C:\xampp\htdocs', if you installed XAMPP as recommanded) there is a index.htm which redirects you. Rename it.

No, the index.php file contains the redirect

No, I have not been able to correct this issue. I typed my request to WordPress and for some reason someone deleted it. :/

Altrea, if you're not too busy and do not mind, can you help us? I'm assuming you mean the index.php in the XAMPP file. How do I redirect in the index.php? What and where should I type in? I am totally new to all of this.

Doesn't matter if you change name of the index.php or index.html. Even with renaming them I think you still need to add the virtual host which is what I was overlooking. I have added the vritual host information to the c:\xampp\apache\conf\extras\httpd-vhosts.conf file. My site is now coming up when I type help.mydomain.com

Unless someone else corrects me as being wrong I think this is a 2 step process.
First - rename the index.php and/or index.html. I renamed both as I wasn't sure which one is the actual redirect
Second - navigate to your xampp install folder (mine was default c:\xampp)
Go to \xampp\apache\conf\extras\ and open httpd-vhosts.conf
On the very last line enter the following but change the names to fit your install

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.yourdomain.com
ServerAlias yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot c:/xampp/htdocs/yourfoldername
</VirtualHost>

I've done this, restarted apache and now can connect by help.mydomain.com

Thank you reaser, rename the index.php/index.html to what?

jlgoinggreen wrote:Thank you reaser, rename the index.php/index.html to what?

Rename to something else.

reaser wrote:I renamed both as I wasn't sure which one is the actual redirect

Simply take a look at these two files in your code editor and you will see that the HTML file doesn't contain anything that can do a redirect

The issue is the order in which Apache processes index files (or default.htm etc). XAMPP has a default order, that is set in httpd.conf.

If you have both a index.php and an index.html file in the same root folder, unless you change the order - the index.php files will always be served first. This only applies when you do not specify the page to be served in teh URL - such as

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 www.mysillydomain.com

Code: Select all

<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.asp index.shtml index.html index.htm \
                   default.php default.pl default.cgi default.asp default.shtml default.html default.htm \
                   home.php home.pl home.cgi home.asp home.shtml home.html home.htm
</IfModule>


IF you are running vhosts, you can make the same changes individually by vhost, or change it in httpd.conf and it is global

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_dir.html

Good Luck