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My first ever post on stackoverflow.com! A great site, and I hope my post will contribute to the benefit of others. The situation: I have been entrusted to renovate a really small, existing, php-driven web site. So, I started to set up my environment: Dreamweaver was installed. I FTP'd the files to my computer from the remote server. I choose Apache and MySQL via the XAMPP package to set up a local host on my computer (PC, Windows XP), installed XAMPP and set the passwords that are left out by default. I made sure that both Apache and MySQL was up and running. I set the parameters for the

This question already has an answer here: How do I run a file on localhost? 6 answers I have a site directory for html (dreamweaver CSS3) with lots of subdirectories that contain HTML files for a number of drop down menus. They work fine where they are, but they all have menus that are JavaScript and could be kept in a separate file. So, I want to use Include. I don't want to have to FTP my files to HostGator every time I want to test the includes. I want to have this on my local machine. So, I am attempting for the first time to setup XAMMP and then run my html files (site) on localhost, so I