Odd error with Apache- NO localhost. Options

[newwebdesigner]

I am having a odd error with Apache 2.4. I installed it, everything should be good, I start it, and I get a 404 error on localhost.I am new to all this, I am using the port 8080 but if I try localhost:8080 is still doesn't work. I don't have a clue as to what is wrong.

This post has been edited by newwebdesigner: Aug 18 2014, 03:12 PM

[newwebdesigner]

Christian, I was watching a helpful video that made it work with mywebsite.localhost.Pandy- I tried that all with vituralhost,i don't understand why it is not working.
If you want to see the code, here is a snipit because I know if I copied the whole httpd.conf and httpd-vhosts.conf it would be very long post.
<VirtualHost *:8080>
ServerAdmin webmaster@mywebsite.localdomain:8080
DocumentRoot "c:/Users/MyUser/mywebsite"
ServerName mywebsite.localdomain:8080
ErrorLog "logs/mywebsite.localdomain:8080-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/mywebsite.localdomain:8080-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

And then here is the line in the httpd.conf that I had to edit:

Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Also, oddly enough, even when I stop apache localhost:8080 is still up, with "it works!"

This post has been edited by newwebdesigner: Aug 19 2014, 10:29 AM

[imort]

Also, oddly enough, even when I stop apache localhost:8080 is still up, with "it works!"

I think that you need to add the 'mywebsite.localdomain' domain to your Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc\hosts file too.
Your local PC just didn't aware about that domain I suppose.