I am brand new to Zen Cart. This is my first time setting up a shopping cart type site, so I purchased the e-start book and am in the process of setting everything up on my local computer for testing. I am running Windows Vista Home Premium for my OS. I have made it to page 36 of the e-book and everything has worked as expected. When I go to http://localhost in my browser I get the XAMPP for windows page as shown in the book.


I am now to the point of setting up a local domain. I edited the file located at c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts adding the following lines to the end of the file:

127.0.0.1 www.kriegdesignstest.com # For browser access
127.0.0.1 mail.kriegdesignstest.com # For email access
127.0.0.1 kriegdesignstest.com # For mercury mail server

I also modified the file at <xampp-home>apache/conf/httpd.conf with the following value:

ServerName www.kriegdesignstest.com:80

When I go to the local domain page, it is still looking to the internet and not to my local compute. I already followed the tip on page 37 about unchecking "use proxy server for LAN". That wasn't checked.

Did I miss a step?

Thanks,
Erin