title: Importing and accessing existing PHP application into XAMPP
body: <p><br>
  I am new to PHP (have been a Java guy all my years :-) but understand the basics of it. For an existing application on which I need to fix some bugs, I need to import it into XAMPP.<br><br>
  I tried putting all the application folders (and files) into the htdocs folder of XAMPP. However, that does not work. The server does list the new project when I navigate to <b>"http://localhost"</b> but when I click on my project (that I copied), the index.php page fails to come up. It simply says page not found. <br> <br></p>
  
  <p>I would like to know a couple of things as listed below... <br>
  1) Is there something wrong I am doing for the project to be hosted on XAMPP? <br><br>
  2) One peculiar thing that I noticed was that when the application browses to <a href="http://localhost/MyProject/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://localhost/MyProject/index.php</a> , it gets redirected to <a href="http://www.localhost/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.localhost/index.php</a> . Is there a URLRewriter (or kind) which is doing this? If yes, where I can find the same within my project? <br> <br>
  3) How can I identify the framework that the existing code is using? I can see M-V-C named class.php files <br> <br></p>
  
  <p>Any pointers would be much helpful for me to start debugging and learning PHP.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!!</p>