XAMPP localhost redirects to localhost/dashboard

Question

I've just installed xampp-win32-5.5.30 and in xampp control panel both Apache and mysql started without any error but I found:

1)localhost in my browser redirects to another page localhost/dashboard/ and not the xampp start page.

2)localhost/xampp shows the following:

Index of /xampp

[ICO]   Name    Last modified   Size    Description
[PARENTDIR] Parent Directory        -    
Apache/2.4.17 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.2d PHP/5.5.30 Server at localhost Port 80

In C:\xampp\htdocs\index.php file:

<?php   
    if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && ('on' == $_SERVER['HTTPS'])) 
    {
            $uri = 'https://';
    } 
    else 
    {
            $uri = 'http://';
    }
    $uri .= $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
    header('Location: '.$uri.'/dashboard/');
    exit;
?>

Something is wrong with the XAMPP installation :-(

Is there something wrong with the installation?

Answer 1

Delete that file(index.php), you will get the list of directories and files from htdocs folder.

Answer 2

In the file /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf change this:

# Virtual hosts
# Include etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

with this:

# Virtual hosts
Include etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Then, In the file /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf add with something like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName sbyc.byc.local
    ServerAlias sbyc.byc.local
    DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/byc-mineduc01-ges/app"
    <Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/byc-mineduc01-ges/app">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog "logs/sbyc.byc.local-error_log"
</VirtualHost>

Answer 3

This:

header('Location: '.$uri.'/dashboard/');

Performs redirect to localhost/dashboard/

Everything works as expected, if you clear this file and put some text, like "Hello world", you should see it on http://localhost/