New Xampp & Wordpress install problem

[Jaxom]

I just installed Xampp and Wordpress on my Windows 8.1 laptop. Not sure where the issue is. If I type in http://mywebsite.com/wordpress I get sent to my ip's search page hosted by Yahoo. If I type in http://localhost:3306/wp-admin or http://mywebsite.com/wp-admin I get this type of error,

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Feel stupid, spent a week trying to figure out why I couldn't get into Wordpress. Different error, that turned out to being the wrong user name being used in the wp-config.php file. I'm posting this here, because I the install was so seamless. I downloaded both Xampp and Wordpress 4.1 about 3 weeks ago from the Bitnami website.

Really confused now as to where the error, or what I did wrong is at. I've tried googling this error. Seems that the "packets out of order" error is more common to Mamp and some type of Apple product.

[Altrea]

Any Information about starting Apache and MySQL?

[Jaxom]

I get everything is working fine when I open Xampp's control panel. Apache, MySql, all running. I'll reread the faq, I believe there's mention of some error logs I can post and such. Will do ANYTHING to get started on actually building my website then messing around just getting at it!

[Nobbie]

If I type in http://mywebsite.com/wordpress I get sent to my ip's search page hosted by Yahoo. If I type in http://localhost:3306/wp-admin or http://mywebsite.com/wp-admin I get this type of error,

All of them wrong....

1) http://mywebsite.com/wordpress ---> what is "mywebseite.com", you are working on localhost
2) http://localhost:3306/wp-admin ---> totally wrong, Port 3306 yields to MySQL instead of Apache
3) http://mywebsite.com/wp-admin ----> again wrong domain name, also wrong folder

Did you try http://localhost/worpress (i cant find it in your suggestions)?

If this still does not work, please answer these two questions:

a) where did you install Xampp? Should be in c:/xampp
b) where did put the wordpress folder? It should be c:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress