Htaccess on XAMPP local server for testing

Question

I finally got the XAMPP local Wordpress system working so now I can test things out.

If I want to mimic htaccess files to test redirect code and so forth - especially htaccess in the root - here would I put the htaccess file?

I'm thinking is the XAMPP folder considered the "root"? I've taken a snapshot of my directories to give you an idea. The checkmarks are there just to show you the general layout of the directories.

One other thing - suppose I wanted to create a sub-directory (like localhost/sub/index.php) to test in XAMPP. Is this possible? I noticed when I'm in local host there is no multi-site capability. Thoughts?

Thanks

Answer 1

The .htaccess file should be in the root of your WordPress installation and you may use sub-directories to create more local sites. For example:

localhost/wordpress = xampp/htdocs/wordpress/index.php
localhost/anothersite = xampp/htdocs/anothersite/index.php
// More...

For the WordPress installation, put the .htaccess in the wordpress directory in example (At the same level where the index.php file is stored).