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This is what I want: when someone put www. <mydomain>.tk in the browser he sees a picture.
Only one page with a picture, nothing more.

I downloaded and installed xampp-win32-5.6.15-1-VC11-installer[1].exe
My OS is Windows 7 64bit.
I have an static IP address and a domain, <mydomain>.TK, which is related to that static IP address.
At https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 I checked if port 80 was blocked , this was not the case.

1 I added at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\host the following line:
<myIPaddress> <mydomain>.

2 In de file C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\ httpd-xampp.conf I changed Require local to: #Require local

3 Then I added in httpd-vhosts.conf these lines:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs"
ServerName www. <mydomain>.tk
</VirtualHost>
After that I restarted the Apache.

When I give www. <mydomain>.tk in my browser, it cannot find the page.

Questions:
1. What did I wrong or what is missing.
2. Do I have to create an index.html.
3. How do I have to point to my picture?

I have an static IP address and a domain, <mydomain>.TK, which is related to that static IP address.

Please explain much more precisely what is meant by "I have an static IP address".

P.S.: It is not very helpfull to repeat ten times in a row, that you "simply" want to show one simple picture. It is not getting simple anyway. You have to connect your private PC as a server to the internet correctly in any way and that is the part what is far from "simple".

FredF wrote:1 I added at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\host the following line:
<myIPaddress> <mydomain>.

This does absolutely nothing for the outside world.

FredF wrote:When I give www. <mydomain>.tk in my browser, it cannot find the page.

What page? Did you create one? This gets at your #2 question if that is the route you want to take.

In all, none of this is related to XAMPP or within the scope of this forum. You should research what is actually happening when you create a web server and how pages/files are served and the answers will appear themselves.