banberry wrote:If I type in localhost/xampp directly I get the login dialog. However, if I just type in localhost it goes to the xampp admin page w/o a login. The work one doesnt ever show the login dialog no matter what I type. I would expect a login when you type localhost.
OK, I have a hard time believing this because this IS strange. That said
http://localhost is redirected to
http://localhost/xampp by the index.php file in /xampp/htdocs. So it's landing in the same place. If you've already logged in to
http://localhost/xampp then it should not ask you again whichever URL you use.
Why one works differently than the other could be due to simply it's configured differently. It may be a very subtle difference at that.
banberry wrote:Also, I would like to turn off directory browsing.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#options