OK, forgive me, I'm blonde and female<G> I need an extremely basic and simple (step 1 do this, step 2 do that) guide to help me set up working locally. For instance... I have instructions that start "Install to http://localhost/yourfolder/" and I'm even stuck on that!! I have downloaded and installed xampp, it tells me it's working ok. So now what? TIA!
As I know xampp does not require any actions after installation. You should run _http://localhost_ in your browser. Did you try that?
Trying that all I get is an object not found! 404 error. I then thought it should be on my C: drive (all my data is on a separate hard-drive) so copied the folder to c:, but still no joy.