XAMPP localhost redirects to localhost/dashboard

Question

I\'ve just installed xampp-win32-5.5.30 and in xampp control panel both Apache and mysql started without any error but I found:

1)localhost

Answer 1

To solve this problem in windows I have edited two files.

/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts

Add a line at the bottom like:

localhost sitename.local

/xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Add at the bottom:

       DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/apps/magento/htdocs"
       ServerName sitename.local

You may need to change the above to use your correct IP address (localhost), port number, and document root path. Then you will access the site in your browser by typing in sitename.local or whatever you changed it to.