I have set up v1.7.2 and have password-secured it.
On the localhost I can access the xampp pages after having given my credentials.
Now, I host 3 sites for foundations and all reside in subfolders of htdocs and for all 3 I added VirtualHosts in the httpd.conf. The environment is exactly the same as I had on my v1.6.6a xampp.
However, xampp security doesn't allow me to access either of the pages.
I guess that I have to make an exclusion for my own sites somewhere, maybe in httpd-xampp.conf, but have not the slightest idea how.
Luckily I still have the old environment on another machine and can NAT-forward simply in my router after some tests, but I have been strugling for 2 weeks now and I still have not seen the light.
If anyone experienced this I'd be glad to know how the problem was overcome.