Recently decided to give a go at learning SQL and PHP. I don't really have programming experience but my father insist I keep busy this summer and learn something.
Anyways so I have been trying to follow you tube guides on installation and everything is fine until the part where they test out to see if Apache is actually running.
I go to services like in the videos and my Apache is listed there as well as the MySQL, I get no errors whatsoever. When they go to type localhost in the browser what I get is completely
different than what all the guides are displaying. They appear to have a menu on the left side that shows "security" along with a bunch of other menu options. When I follow
the same steps and type in localhost I am taken to http://localhost/dashboard/
Here the page is very different than all the guides I encountered and shows the following
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Welcome to XAMPP for Windows 5.6.11
You have successfully installed XAMPP on this system! Now you can start using Apache, MySQL, PHP and other components. You can find more info in the FAQs section or check the HOW-TO Guides for getting started with PHP applications.
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I am totally confused as to how I can access the localhost menu options like everyone else? The next step in the guide was going into security to set a password but I am not able to do that.
I use windows 7 and the xampp i downloaded is the latest from the official website. Also I get no errors when running both apache and mysql. I don't know exactly what I am doing wrong or how to get to the menu options.