Getting PHP running on XAMPP

Question

I installed XAMPP for Windows on my computer. I started it up and checked the status and it said that PHP is activated. I then went to the following directory: C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot and created a file name phpinfo.php with the following in it:

    <?php phpinfo(); ?>

I then opened my web browser (I tried Internet Explorer and Google Chrome ) and typed in:

    http://localhost/phpinfo.php 

in the address bar. I got the following error:

Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. 
If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 404 localhost 11/10/12 10:03:28 Apache/2.2.21 (Win32)
mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/1.0.0e PHP/5.3.8 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1**

If I just type in http://localhost/ , I get the XAMPP startup page just fine.

I double and triple checked that my phpinfo.php is in the correct directory and am at a los for what else I could be doing wrong.

Answer 1

C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot --> Not the default directory for Xampp. That is for IIS

C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\ --> default directory.

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Create xyz.php within C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\ and then access http://localhost/xyz.php .