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Asked: 2026-05-20T10:34:38+00:00

This is the first time I’ve tried to setup Joomla in a localhost dev

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This is the first time I’ve tried to setup Joomla in a localhost dev environment. I have everything setup with Xampp, and when I browse to localhost/mysite, I sort of see my site, but without any styles, images, etc..

In Firebug, I can see that the initial request goes to localhost/mysite, but all the subsequent requests go to just ‘localhost’- so I’m getting a bunch of 404’s on my CSS, images, etc.

I’ve tried tinkering around in .htaccess and the root index.php file, but I can’t seem to figure out how to tell Joomla to look at localhost/mysite instead of just localhost…?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The answer was to change the configuration:

    var $live_site = '';

    That initially had the actual URL. I changed it to “localhost/mysite” (several variations.) – but because I didn’t have http://localhost, it was appending it, instead of replacing it. The request in the NET tab of Firebug indicated the calls were going to “localhost”, but in the HTML panel, I could see the inproper URL, and it looked like this..

    localhost/mysite\localhost\mysite/myfile.css
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