Putting a link from html to a localhost

Question

I would like to put a link in my HTML site to access my database. However, my database is localhost/abc.php (located inside xampp/htdocs).

I was wondering how to add the link because it it a localhost document. I could not do it with the <a href="localhost/abc.php"> or the c:///xampp/htdocs/abc.php .

Answer 1

<a href="localhost/abc.php"> is a relative URL .

It points to a directory named localhost in the directory of the current URL.

You need an absolute URL: http://localhost/...

Answer 2

use

<a href="http://localhost/abc.php">to my db</a> 

that will work.

In detail:

"localhost" is the hostname of the url your are pointing to.

It needs to be prefixed with the protocol you are using. In this case http://

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