xampp in window 7 cannot access files in subfolder inside C:/xampp/htdocs

Question

In httpd.conf I've changed port to : Listen 8080 and ServerName localhost:8080

Now on my browser I had to enter http://localhost:8080 and everything seems to work fine and I can see all my files and folders inside htdocs directory.

The problem is that I cannot go inside any folders under htdocs for example: C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress

When I click on wordpress/ in the browser it says

Webpage is not available

And something weird is if I type http://localhost:8080/wordpress the URL would automatically change to http://localhost/wordpress/.
And I get same error : "Webpage is not available"

Is this because I change the port to 8080 ?
Am I missing some other config ?

Answer 1

First of all try to restart apache whenever you make any change in conf file

you seems to be not using fresh wordpress. And browser url removing the 8080 because of some htaccess rule.

you can test apache by making a folder with name test in htdocs. And put a simple php file with this code

<?php 
    phpinfo();

and save it as testapache.php

and browse it by

http://localhost:8080/test/testapache.php