I followed this tutorial for setting up xampp for using joomla1.5:
http://www.veoh.com/collection/screencasts/watch/v1802750A7Mnpe7z
I successfully got Xampp running. Apache and MySQL runs too. I set up a new database and a new user assigned to that database. I extracted my files to a folder called "joomla" and put it in the htdocs folder. Now when I go to http://localhost/joomla I get this error message:
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Access forbidden!
You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 403
localhost
Wed Jun 3 00:07:59 2009
Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.7l PHP/5.2.9 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0
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Going to "http://localhos"t will still take to xampp. So that still works. Can anyone help please!????