misticloudz

well, i'm not sure exactly why it wasn't loading localhost at all, but i ended up uninstalling/reinstalling everything a few times, getting frustrated, and downloading wamp5 and localhost loaded there, even though the index page for my website would NOT load. i ended up figuring out that the problem was that the index page was trying to load the original installer for the cart i use, and that i needed to go through the configuration again to specify the correct pathways. anyhow, thanks for trying!

ok, so i'm admittedly a complete newbie at this. i've downloaded 3.5, and have installed it. i can run the program and get to apanel, but when i attempt to load http://localhost i get an "HTTP 404 not found" message. as far as i know, i'm supposed to be able to type in 'localhost' and be redirected to apanel, but this doesn't happen. it works when i go to 'http://localhost/apanel', but 'http://localhost/' or anything like that doesn't work. i've checked to make sure IIS is disabled, i don't have a firewall running, and i'm 99% sure nothing is running on port 80 (i've done the netstat listening thing in the cmd prompt). all that i'm using uniform server for is local testing of my website; i just want to get it loading! please excuse the layman's terms, but i'm not very technical. heck, i'm surprised i've gotten this far myself! any help would be greatly appreciated... thanks!