Question

I am trying to access localhost on my xampp via the Chrome browser but I get this error message:

Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the 
URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 404

Apache and MySQL are turned on so I don’t understand.

Answer 1

You can access “localhost” just fine.

The “404: file not found” error indicates the server can’t find the requested file once you’ve connected to localhost.

ADDENDUM:

Maybe try to create a regular html file called test.html in one of
your vhosts that is not working. Then try to visit that url. That
should give you some clue as to what may be the problem. – Gohn67

This is good advice. Try it. Specifically:

1) Create the following five files:

• C:/xampp/htdocs/dummy-host.localhost/test.html

• C:/xampp/htdocs/my/test.html

• C:/xampp/htdocs/launcher/public_html/test.html

• C:/xampp/htdocs/website/httpdocs/test.html

• C:/xampp/htdocs/my/test.html

2) Make sure each of these directories exist, and each has a “test.html” with the words “TESTING 1…2…3” in it

3) Try each of these five URLs in your browser:

• http://localhost/test.html
• http://itutormaths.web/test.html
• http://itutormaths.mod/test.html
• http://itutormaths.hub/test.html
• http://my.itm/test.html

4) Report back the exact error you get from each browser URL