Hello XAMPPers!
I'm trying to get going with Drupal, but I'm hamstrung by difficulties with XAMPP. I was able to successfully install XAMPP, and I was able to start both Apache and MySQL. However, I keep getting the warning that I do not have administrative rights. Very well. So I right-clicked on the icon for the XAMPP console, and clicked Run As Administrator. Even worse. The console starts up with red X's to the left of Apache and MySQL. In either case, when I click on the "Admin" button, I am not led to localhost/XAMPP. Instead, I'm led to localhost/Dashboard, and when I type in localhost/XAMPP manually, I don't get the Admin page. I should mention that I installed XAMPP on another laptop on the same WiFi network, and it worked perfectly. But that laptop is about to bite the dust, and I wanted to move my work over to a new one. Is it possible that Admin rights were granted to the old computer, and I must re-assign them to the new one? If so, how would I do that?
I'm using XAMPP version 5.6.14, from https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html on a laptop that uses Windows 8.1, and I'm using the installation path C:\xampp\.
Thanks for reading!
-QD