davidspeare@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I have done somthing similar. I actually did install an XAMPP package
> and it was working fine. I went into the httpd file to change the
> directory and now my localhost is not found. The last few lines in my
> error file are:
>
> [Fri Jan 12 21:15:28 2007] [notice] Parent: Child process exited
> successfully.
> [Fri Jan 12 21:15:32 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Win32) DAV/2
> mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8d mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.0 configured
> -- resuming normal operations
> [Fri Jan 12 21:15:32 2007] [notice] Server built: Sep 30 2006 21:24:06
> [Fri Jan 12 21:15:32 2007] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3588
> [Fri Jan 12 21:15:33 2007] [warn] module php5_module is already
> loaded, skipping
> [Fri Jan 12 21:15:34 2007] [notice] Child 3588: Child process is
> running
> [Fri Jan 12 21:15:34 2007] [notice] Child 3588: Acquired the start
> mutex.
> [Fri Jan 12 21:15:34 2007] [notice] Child 3588: Starting 250 worker
> threads.
> [Fri Jan 12 21:15:35 2007] [notice] Child 3588: Starting thread to
> listen on port 443.
> [Fri Jan 12 21:15:35 2007] [notice] Child 3588: Starting thread to
> listen on port 8080.
>
> The only thing I changed in my setup was to point from:
> DocumentRoot "C:/XAMPP/xampp/htdocs"
> to
> DocumentRoot "C:/XAMPP/xampp/www"
>
> Any ideas how this newbie messed up?

If that was the _only_ thing you changed in XAMPP settings, you forgot you
have to change te main dir configuration also. On
<Directory ></Directory> there's a "Deny from all" which you should amend
for <Directory "C:/XAMPP/xampp/www"> like "Allow from 127.0.0.1".

That won't give you a localhost not found error however. You _do_ try to
use http://localhost:8080/ do you? It's not the standard port for http (or
XAMPP), but clearly set.
--
Rik Wasmus