Hello all
First off I apologise in advance, I have no doubt that I will be berated to no end for my ineptitude with this program but hey, we all gotta start somewhere right?
I've reinstalled XAMPP to try and finally figure out where I've been going wrong and I feel like im bashing my head against the wall with this so I have finally admitted defeat and come crawling for help.
Here is what I have done so far :
1. Unistall XAMPP and delete all associated files (as far as I know)
2. Reinstall to C:/xampp
3. Open control panel, open httpd.conf and change my DocumentRoot to my websites directory
this is where the fun began.
First I was told that Apache couldn't start because the port it was trying to use was already taken (port 80) so I changed it to 81, opened httpd.conf again and changed the port here as well :
#Listen 12.34.56.78:81
Listen 81
All seemed well and I started up Apache and MySQL with no problems, I then opened my browser, typed in "localhost" and nothing happened. I navigated to the index file of my most recent project and nothing happened.
At this stage I figured that I'd messed around with the config files too much and decided to start again. I copied this text from github https://gist.github.com/rukku/3411602 to have a fresh, default httpd.conf file in the hope that I could start from scratch without any issues.
I was evidently mistaken....
So now I'm at the point where I have no clue what I'm doing (I didn't really have a clue to begin with) and I think I've messed this up even more than when I started.
Please can someone help me sort this mess out, the amount of time I'm wasting uploading every change to my web server just to see how it looks is ridiculous.
Thank You