A few tips I picked up today while rebuiliding my PC after it blue screened of me: 1. the latest version of XAMPP (1.7.2) ships with PHP5.3. Drupal 6 does now work on PHP5.3. 2. When you keep your local sites in a folder outside of XAMPP install folder's htdocs directory (in my case C:/www) make sure to specify directory overrides or you will end up with access denied errors in the browser and "client denied by server configuration" in the error log. Open up httpd.conf and duplicate the section set up for your DocumentRoot. If you are using the default folders it will start with

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