Hi,
It has been a few years since I last looked at XAMPP and my web site (I use Joomla 2.5 to create it) and am struggling to pick up where I left off.
I used to edit my site locally before uploading to my web host, but now when I try to access my local site (called "joomlabeta") via localhost/htdocs/joomlabeta I get an "object not found" error.
It might be due to incorrect file locations but I can't work out how to check/what to do about it.
I have C (internal HDD) and J (external HDD) [drive], with xampp folders in both, and htdocs folders in both. I already had xampp v1.7.3 in J:\xampp, and before starting again with my web site I thought it best to upgrade xampp first, so downloaded xampp v1.8.3, and that seems to have gone into C:\xampp. My htdocs folder containing the joomlabeta site is in J:\xampp\htdocs\joomlabeta. XAMPP control panel reports everything is running fine, Apache, MySQL, etc. and just typing localhost (or localhost/xampp) brings up the "Welcome to XAMPP for Windows" welcome page.
I appreciate there might be a few steps / bits of info required before I'm back to where I started, so would be very grateful for a bit of help to "get back in the saddle".
(I'm kicking myself for not keeping up to date now - I have forgotten everything and have to start from scratch again!)