[Ali from The Office Diet]

Hi all,

I'm trying to follow the instructions here: Installing WordPress Locally Under Windows XP - [Geeks are Sexy] technology news to install a local version of Wordpress (so I can play around with templates).

I'm getting stuck at step 4: I get a "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" error every time I try to go to cPanel®

When I run the xampp-portcheck file, it all looks fine (I had to uninstall Skype, which I don't use anyway, as that was taking up port 80). apache.exe is showing on the Apache http and the Apache https, and mysql.exe on the MySQL line.

I'm not a programmer and pretty stumped at this point; I thought I could just follow the step-by-step instructions to get it running!

I'm on a wireless network, accessing the internet via a desktop, but I can't see how that would affect my localhost IP or anything?

Thanks so much for any help or ideas...

Ali