I am a newbie to xampp but do know some things about computers.
Here is the situation: I installed xampp on my windowx xp home system in preperation for installing a wordpress test/development environment. Concerned about security I modified my norton security firewall to limit access to the local subnet. I ran control panel, started apache and mysql, and had no problems with localhost access or phpmyadmin. I then ran localhost/security as suggested with respect to xampp instruction. I set password for mysql and it indicated success. I then set a username and password for access to xampp directories and it indicated success.
I can get to phpmyadmin with the password.
I can't get to localhost or localhost/security. I get an authentication failure - error 401
The log shows:
[Fri Apr 05 15:56:20.750000 2013] [core:warn] [pid 4792:tid 416] AH00098: pid file C:/xampp/apache/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Fri Apr 05 15:56:22.046875 2013] [ssl:warn] [pid 4792:tid 416] AH01873: Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Fri Apr 05 15:56:22.515625 2013] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 4792:tid 416] AH00455: Apache/2.4.3 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.1c PHP/5.4.7 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Apr 05 15:56:22.515625 2013] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 4792:tid 416] AH00456: Server built: Aug 18 2012 12:41:37
[Fri Apr 05 15:56:22.515625 2013] [core:notice] [pid 4792:tid 416] AH00094: Command line: 'c:\\xampp\\apache\\bin\\httpd.exe -d C:/xampp/apache'
[Fri Apr 05 15:56:22.531250 2013] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 4792:tid 416] AH00418: Parent: Created child process 5916
[Fri Apr 05 15:56:28.312500 2013] [ssl:warn] [pid 5916:tid 1636] AH01873: Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Fri Apr 05 15:56:28.734375 2013] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 5916:tid 1636] AH00354: Child: Starting 150 worker threads.
[Fri Apr 05 15:57:30.359375 2013] [auth_basic:error] [pid 5916:tid 216] [client 127.0.0.1:1863] AH01617: user uforwptst: authentication failure for "/xampp/": Password Mismatch
[Fri Apr 05 15:58:03.390625 2013] [auth_basic:error] [pid 5916:tid 216] [client 127.0.0.1:1864] AH01617: user uforwptst: authentication failure for "/xampp/": Password Mismatch
[Fri Apr 05 15:58:20.156250 2013] [auth_basic:error] [pid 5916:tid 216] [client 127.0.0.1:1865] AH01617: user uforwptst: authentication failure for "/xampp/": Password Mismatch
I know the password I am entering is the same as the password I created as I am very careful about writing them down and entering them.
I've looked everywhere to try to find a solution to this and can't find it. I have confirmed the mod_rewrite is loaded. I've tried the override all from override none in the conf file. Reverted everything tried when it didn't work.
Resolving this problem so that I can get on with things would be appreciated.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.