I have tried to setup XAMPP server for testing my own WP website locally on my Windows 11. XAMPP was installed correctly – I use default apache port 80 because there is no conflict with other apps, and a DB was imported successfully without an error.

The root directory of my dev site is in C:/xampp/htdocs/test/

a) The followings are working:

    http://localhost
    http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php

b) PHP homepage on local XAMP server displays 404 not found page:

    http://localhost/test/ or http://localhost/test/index.php

c) HTML homepage works:

    http://localhost/test/index.html (I put that index.html in root directory above for testing)

d) Category page is redirected to http://localhost/dashboard/:

    http://localhost/test/cat/services/

-I have tried to configure virtualhost in C:xamppapacheconfextrahttpd-vhosts.config:

  <VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/test/"
  ServerName web1.localhost
  </VirtualHost>

-and in C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts:

  127.0.0.1       localhost
  127.0.0.1         web1.localhost

But they dont work at all, and even rediects some of the pages above to my live website’s homepage.

How can I fix this issue?