I found a few online sources for setting up XAMPP so that I can work on more than one website/domain at a time. However, I was having some difficulty getting it working and then found additional information on how to set it up that somewhat conflicts with the initial setup I found. Now, I'm wondering if due to different setup due to old vs. newer versions, etc. if I'm stuck so-to-speak.
So, for Wordpress, can anyone out there give me the low-down on what I need to setup?
What I did initially was ...
1. update my hosts file so that 127.0.0.1 was set to local host but also added an additional line so that 127.0.0.1 would also point to bhp.local (a specific wordpress site). Not sure anything other than pointing to localhost is even needed though.
2. updated httpd-vhosts.conf with the <virtualhost *:80> section for my single site. But, not sure I set it up correctly or if it even needs to be setup
3. Under htdocs, i renamed my 'wordpress' folder to 'bhp' so that it was named for that specific website/domain.
I then tried logging in by going to http://localhost/bhp_wordpress/wp-admin/ but I get the Object Not Found Error 404 message. My database name hasn't changed -- bhp_wordpress. I'm a little confused now ... does the name after http://localhost/ need to be the database name or the name of the folder under htdocs? Regardless, if I use 'bhp' instead of 'bhp_wordpress' ... the wp-admin login still doesn't come up.
Let me know what information I need to provide to help you help me.
Any help is appreciated.