WARNING when upgrading.

[solconnection]

Remember that the HTDOCS folder is in the XAMPP folder, so when you upgrade, everything in HTDOCS is lost.

this is a silly file structure, HTDOCS should reside outside the core functionality of XAMPP so upgrading doesn't mean losing all your sites (which just happened to me)...worse still osx permanently erases everything, bypassing the trash, so it is unrecoverable.

learn from my mistake though it would be good if the xampp team prevented this from happening in the future with better folder structuring.

[MegaChriz]

Change the DocumentRoot in httpd.conf if you want your files at a different location:

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#
# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
#
DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs"

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#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs">

[MegaChriz]

Alternatively, you can also create a virtual host.
If you want to do that by using a different port, you need to add

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AcceptMutex flock

in httpd.conf, because of a bug in XAMPP.

And then you can add a virtual host this way:

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Listen 1000
NameVirtualHost *:1000
<VirtualHost *:1000 >
    DocumentRoot "/Websites"
</VirtualHost>

See also /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
or http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/

[solconnection]

thanks guys, appreciated