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Hi,
I was hoping you guys can help me out. If I go to my website it goes automatically to \dashboard, while I have Joomla installed, I can't seem to find the right way to make my Joomla homepage show up as standard when someone enters my site by its name, it still goes to the XAMPP page.....

Where can I change this and why did it not activate by itself if i walked through the setup proces of XAMPP and then JOOMLA?

I hope someone can help me....

Thanks

I've been searching the web about this, but could not find a solution that would fit in the installation process. Just went to the XAMPP folder, deeper into HTDOCS, and opened index.php and changed there the only setting of the word dashboard in joomla...

On the bottom it says that there went something wrong with the installation, go figure....
How can I resolve this in a normal way?

Where did you install Joomla (into which folder)? Please apply the full pathname of your Joomla Installation (where is the index.php file from Joomla?).

F:\xampp\apps\joomla\htdocs.... where it standard goes.... Index.php from joomla is in there...

Did you install Joomla from Bitnami? Because there is also "plain" Joomla in the Internet and i dont know which one you installed?! If you install Joomla from Bitnami, i think it should create an ALIAS or similar for accessing Joomla into your browser, you MUST NOT simply use localhost. Isnt there any documentation about running Joomla in Xampp?

I just entered "How to access Bitnami Joomla" and it leads me directly to a readme, which you should read before going any further: https://bitnami.com/stack/joomla/README.txt

Did you read that?

Hi, thanks. I did read it, but no use for me, as I installed all through bitnami.
What also is solved is the manual change that I made in the index.php, not to let it point to dashboard, but to joomla.....
This action I took is ofcourse not the right one, as it calls the index.php in XAMPP and not in JOOMLA folder.... That is my question, how to correct that!

avandel wrote:Hi, thanks. I did read it, but no use for me, as I installed all through bitnami.

You did not read it, as IT IS FOR YOU, you MUST follow it IF YOU INSTALL THROUGH BITNAMI. It contains all answers to your questions.

AH fuck it. I'll figure it out myself, not gonna write long words to tell you that I was not born yesterday, and I don't need a NOOB telling me that I did not read something, AS I DID!
Thanks for nothing.

You are simply lying and as long as you dont read that file, you wont succeed. Its on you. Its your problem, not mine.

No Dobbie, you might think you are an Elf, but you are merely HUMAN!
Oh before I forget to say, I did read, I did follow the steps, and there was no problem installing, but as you being HUMAN, you can't look inside my world to see if I am lying or not. Oh and just to tell you, If you read the text 1000 times or more, then you would not come up with the answer, and that is:
In folder F:\xampp\apache\conf is a file named httpd.conf and in that file there is a line that tells where to go....
At line 247-248 it says
DocumentRoot "F:/XAMPP/htdocs"
<Directory "F:/XAMPP/htdocs">

and I changed that in

DocumentRoot "F:/XAMPP/apps/joomla/htdocs"
<Directory "F:/XAMPP/apps/joomla/htdocs">

All is well, thank you for fucking with me, it brought me where I wanted to be....

Hello,
For information, i had trouble with joomla and PHP 7.2. I had to downgrade to PHP 7.1 version to resolve my problems.

On what platform did you install it? if I may ask....
The only little things I had was that FTP and HTTP was already active on IIS on my Windows 2012 server, but after disabling and shuttingdown of those resources (services.msc), I got a neat install...

Glad You found the problem and could solve it through smart thinking..... A pity actually that the automated process could not capture those problems for you....

avandel wrote:Glad You found the problem and could solve it through smart thinking.....

Funny. You simply destroyed your Xampp installation and cannot reach the dashboard anymore, instead of simply reading readme.txt and following that super simple advice:

And you can access the following URL on Windows:

http://127.0.0.1/joomla/

This does not work for you anymore and now you cannot reach the dashboard with all the usefull links (phpinfo etc.). Really smart....

Noobie, instead of crappin' down people's neck you could be helpfull instead of saying BS.

I really can't see your point, I can touch my dashboard fine, it is within armlength if I sit in my car, or if I want to go remotely to my server, or adjust anything on my website.
So,.....
I really can't see your point.