Title: Error 404 message
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Error 404 message

 *  [Amirhamza786](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amirhamza786/)
 * (@amirhamza786)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-message-1/)
 * Please help……………….
    When I search for [http://localhost/wordpress/](http://localhost/wordpress/)
   then I get this message. “Object not found!
 * The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page
   seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the
   error.
 * If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
 * Error 404
 * localhost
    04/13/12 00:11:42 Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.4 OpenSSL/
   0.9.8e mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.1″ What can I do now???

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 *  [Chris Burbridge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisbeee/)
 * (@chrisbeee)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-message-1/#post-2684137)
 * You need to provide some more context.
 * Does [http://localhost](http://localhost) work?
    Do any other subdirectories 
   of [http://localhost](http://localhost) work?
 *  Thread Starter [Amirhamza786](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amirhamza786/)
 * (@amirhamza786)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-message-1/#post-2684151)
 * When I press [http://localhost](http://localhost) I get this message
    “Welcome
   to XAMPP for Windows Version 1.6.1 !
 * Congratulations:
    You have successfully installed XAMPP on this system! Now you
   can start using Apache and Co. You should first try »Status« on the left navigation
   to make sure everything works fine.
 * For OpenSSL support please use the test certificate with [https://127.0.0.1](https://127.0.0.1)
   or [https://localhost](https://localhost)
 * And most importantly, a big thanks for help and support to Carsten, Nemesis, 
   KriS, Boppy, Pc-Dummy and all other friends of XAMPP!
 * Good luck, Kay Vogelgesang + Kai ‘Oswald’ Seidler”
 * But when I press [http://localhost/Joomla/](http://localhost/Joomla/) I get 404
   message.
 *  [Chris Burbridge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisbeee/)
 * (@chrisbeee)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404-message-1/#post-2684187)
 * I don’t know why that is — but I think there’s a better way to do it anyway —
   to set up a Virtual Host for each project.
 * This explanation looks good: [http://sawmac.com/xampp/virtualhosts/](http://sawmac.com/xampp/virtualhosts/)
 * The only thing I didn’t see him mention, is that you need to make sure that in
   the main Apache config file, httpdd.conf, you need to make sure that the include
   of httpd-vhosts.conf is not commented out. (I think it is, by default).
 * Here’s another post: [http://www.tildemark.com/setting-up-virtual-hosts-with-xampp-running-on-windows-xp/](http://www.tildemark.com/setting-up-virtual-hosts-with-xampp-running-on-windows-xp/)
 * What I do, is I have a completely standard format that uses a .local extension
   for my local sites. So if my customer’s site is mydomain.com, I will setup mydomain.
   local on my local site. You can “fool” your local site to think any domain is
   local, and then you have a cleaner way of working, IMHO.
 * This way, it’s a very simple copy-and-paste operation to set up new virtual hosts,
   once I have set up the first one.

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