Hi
Installed xampplite about 6 days ago in order to run php files, with the following steps:
Created a folder C:\xampp inside which is installed xampplite at C:\xampp\xampplite
All running okay and have secured the installation as helpfully suggested here. Can open localhost but would like to open a site being built on my PC. This is located in a folder named agency at C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop\agency
Amended the windows host file at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Already had 127.0.0.1 localhost
Now added 127.0.0.1 agency.localhost
Understand I need to set up virtual host for this but after 6 days still nothing, they don't work, or mainly stop Apache running. So beyond the point of thinking what I could be doing wrong, searched, read through here (which is useful) edited C:\xampp\xampplite\apache\conf\extra around 200 times, followed a number of posts on this here and others on the web (many seem wrong).
Can anyone please suggest any other method of running php on a windows machine, or point me towards docs on how you set a site up, or even tell me what is supposed to go into C:\xampp\xampplite\apache\conf\extra
Tried just about everything, from renaming, locating files in different paths, reversing slashes etc.
Thanks for your time, appreciate people should read and sort this type of thing out but run out of places to read.