title: Ppening an HTML file on localhost in XAMMP/apache 2.2 using subdirectories under htdocs
body: <p>I have a site directory for html (dreamweaver CSS3) with lots of subdirectories that contain HTML files for a number of drop down menus. They work fine where they are, but they all have menus that are JavaScript and could be kept in a separate file. So, I want to use Include. I don't want to have to FTP my files to HostGator every time I want to test the includes. I want to have this on my local machine. So, I am attempting for the first time to setup XAMMP and then run my html files (site) on localhost, so I can see what they look like before ftping everything to HostGator and putting it live.</p>
  
  <p>I tried copying the main site folder to htdocs, and then copying the path to the file I want to run in front of the localhost in Firefox, but it gave me file not found:
  <a href="http://localhost/xampp/PL_20080923/0-Sections/000-ComingSoon/PHPTestComingSoonNMBT-Test.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://localhost/xampp/PL_20080923/0-Sections/000-ComingSoon/PHPTestComingSoonNMBT-Test.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Do I have too many subdirectories? Why isn't the file being found? It is there.</p>
  
  <p>Tried this too:
  <a href="http://localhost/xampp/htdocs/PL_20080923/0-Sections/000-ComingSoon/PHPTestComingSoonNMBT-Test.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://localhost/xampp/htdocs/PL_20080923/0-Sections/000-ComingSoon/PHPTestComingSoonNMBT-Test.html</a></p>
  
  <p>No go.</p>