Getting started: navigating to /cp results in Not Found

[JeroenRood]

While following the Quick Start Guide on Statamic Docs, I navigated my way through setting up a project. So far, I managed to install Statamic 4 through Composer, and set up XAMPP to have an additional VirtualHost for my project's directory. I also created a super admin, as recommended by the docs. So far everything seems to work like a breeze. This is the current state of the project:

Platform: Windows 11
Statamic Version (derived from composer.json): ^4.0
Project name: dutch-patches
VirtualHost config:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin <some-email-i-chose@host.tld>
    DocumentRoot "C:/a/specific/path/to/the/project/dutch-patches/public"
    ServerName dutchpatches.local
    ErrorLog "logs/dutchpatches.local-error.log"
    CustomLog "logs/dutchpatches.local-access.log" common
    <Directory "C:/a/specific/path/to/the/project/dutch-patches/">
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

As a result, I managed to open up http://dutchpatches.local/ in the browser, to show the Welcome to your brand new Statamic site! page. That works.

But when I navigate to http://dutchpatches.local/cp, Apache shows me a Not Found page.

I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Is this related to me following the steps wrongly? Or might it be some issue with my XAMPP setup? I do suspect that the VirtualHost is not set up correctly, but in light of a Statamic project, I do not know what might be a good DocumentRoot or <directory />.

Hopefully, someone can give me some pointers on how to solve this issue, so that I can successfully set up my Statamic project and the environment in XAMPP.

[JeroenRood]

As it turns out, I was trying too hard getting it to work on XAMPP, not using htdocs while trying to set up a VirtualHost. In fact, I now learned that Laravel can set up a server in-situ in the project. All I had to do is cd into the project directory and run php artisan serve.

Now I can just navigate to 127.0.0.1:8000, and still get the Welcome to your brand new Statamic site! page. Now, navigating to /cp works as well.

[duncanmcclean]

Glad you managed to get it sorted! I've marked this comment as the 'answer'.