Topic: getting to localhost/mysite 'object not found'

[seph]

Hi, I've spent close to two hours looking for an answer to this, I know it's there somewhere but search engines suck helping to find answers to the important things.

I have just installed apache friends edition xampp on vista. I have had experience with this from back at uni. PHP and mysql are apparently working, but my issue is getting to my site. i'm trying to get to index.php in C:/xampp2/xampp/htdocs/test/

From memory you should be able to get to the site by going to localhost/test,where test is the name of the folder inside htdocs

However I get an 'object not found' error. I have tried various combinations of additions to hosts, httpd.conf, and httpd-vhosts.conf. I restarted Apache after every edit, and to no avail.

an example of what i have added to httpd.conf is

[glsmith]

Well .. if ServerName == test
then http://test is what you want. However, the always overlooked thing in vhosts is the _default_ one which is just a bare minimum of the main server config in httpd.conf and must come first or problems develop.

assuming that is set at C:/xampp2/xampp/htdocs then first vhost

<VirtualHost _default_:*>
DocumentRoot C:/xampp2/xampp/htdocs
</VirtualHost>

then

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName test
DocumentRoot C:/xampp2/xampp/htdocs/test
</VirtualHost>

Of course "test" must be defined in your hosts file on Windows and pointed to 127.0.0.1.

Backtracking however, what is the main config in httpd.conf

Please just the ServerName & DocumentRoot and the <Directory c:\???> container for that document root .. minus all the comment lines.

[seph]

Hiya, thanks for taking an interest.

Here is my httpd.conf file

[seph]

Woohoo!

Thanks very much for your help. That and I played around with Apache and stopped running it as a service, and bingo!

Thanks a lot