XAMPP Joomla Vhost - Dashboard not found

Question

What I want:

I want to start Joomla with this URL: "joomla.localhost" All files from joomla are copied in this directory:

C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\joomla

In my

C:\\xampp\\apache\\conf\\extra\\httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName joomla.localhost
    ServerAlias joomla.localhost
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/joomla"
</VirtualHost>

And in my

C:\\xampp\\apache\\conf\\httpd.conf

<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/joomla">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

In my

C:\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts:

127.0.0.1       joomla.localhost

When I navigate to http://joomla.localhost/installation everything is ok. I can install joomla. All is fine. After the installation I delete the installation folder. But when I try http://joomla.localhost joomla will redirect to http://joomla.localhost/dashboard - yeah because of

header('Location: '.$uri.'/dashboard/');

in the index.php. But - I got Object not found ... so what is wrong? Is there a specific entry in my apache required?

Thanks!

Answer 1

It was my fault. Joomla creates this PHP (index.php):

<?php
    if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && ('on' == $_SERVER['HTTPS'])) {
        $uri = 'https://';
    } else {
        $uri = 'http://';
    }
    $uri .= $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
    header('Location: '.$uri.'/dashboard/');
    exit;
?>
Something is wrong with the XAMPP installation :-(

I don't know why. After reinstall everything is fine!