XAMPP keeps showing Dashboard/Welcome Page instead of the Configuration Page

Question

I\'ve just downloaded and installed XAMPP 5.6.11 and started all the tools from the control panel. I\'ve seen that one of it\'s new features is that it has a Welcome/Dashboa

Answer 1

I was also experiencing the same issue. 5.5.24 was the latest version that worked for me. The Apache Friends blog has a post, https://www.apachefriends.org/blog/new_xampp_20150723.html, that mentions the newer versions shipping with the 'Dashboard'.

Answer 2

Open the htdocs folder there will be index.php file. In that file script is written to go in dashboard folder and show dashboard. So you just have to comment it or delete that script and write any code save it and run http://localhost now dashboard screen will not open and you will see what you have written in that file.

Answer 3

Same issue here, comparing the htdocs/xampp folder in 5.6.11 with 5.6.8 I saw all the files there are missing in 5.6.11. Copied the entire htdocs/xampp folder from 5.6.8 to 5.6.11 and worked fine.

Answer 4

I've resolved the issue, by going to setting and permalink, just choose post-name.

it should work and you'll see the exact page.. rather than dashboard/xampp page again

Best of Luck

Answer 5

Here is the solutions that worked for me:

1. open index.php from the htdocs folder
2. inside replace the word dashboard with your database name.
3. restart the server

This should resolve the issue :-)

Answer 6

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/

The old version, but the desired function will be sufficient.

Uninstall version 5.6.11 and downgrade to version 5.6.8.