Getting PHP running on XAMPP

Question

I installed XAMPP for Windows on my computer. I started it up and checked the status and it said that PHP is activated. I then went to the following directory: C:\inetpub\wwwroot and created a file name phpinfo.php with the following in it:

    <?php phpinfo(); ?>

I then opened my web browser (I tried Internet Explorer and Google Chrome) and typed in:

    http://localhost/phpinfo.php

in the address bar. I got the following error:

Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. 
If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 404 localhost 11/10/12 10:03:28 Apache/2.2.21 (Win32)
mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/1.0.0e PHP/5.3.8 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1**

If I just type in http://localhost/, I get the XAMPP startup page just fine.

I double and triple checked that my phpinfo.php is in the correct directory and am at a los for what else I could be doing wrong.

Anirudh Ramanathan · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-10 17:18:36Z

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C:\inetpub\wwwroot --> Not the default directory for Xampp. That is for IIS

C:\xampp\htdocs\ --> default directory.

Create xyz.php within C:\xampp\htdocs\ and then access http://localhost/xyz.php.

answered Nov 10, 2012 at 17:18

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user758362 Over a year ago

Yep! That did it. I need to learn to read the documentation correctly!!!! Thanks for answering a dumb question quickly

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