Hi,
Yes, you can't use two different directories with the same database.
You can have:
http://www.abc.com/blablablabla
and
http://localhost/blablablabla
You can't have
http://localhost/www.abc.com/blablablabla
This is where you are misunderstanding how things work and why things are going wrong.
You must set up a site on your local server with a unique domain name. E.g.
http://www.abc.local
You can add www.abc.local into your hosts file so it maps to localhost (127.0.0.1) and have Apache watch the localhost address (127.0.0.1) with NameVirtualhost * etc.
If you don't know what that means I can't help you here.. please search the internet for guides on setting up Apache on a local machine.
Hope that helps!
All the best...
Conor
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