Okay, just to ensure I understand you, you mean that you can go to a locally hosted site just by putting the site name in the URL bar without prefixing it with 'localhost/', in other words, you can...

Nope, that makes no difference. When I explicitly rem-out the localhost entry in the Windows HOSTS file, like this:


#127.0.0.1 localhost

...then my sites run on Edge with the 'localhost/'...

Of course, that's the browser that has the problem.

Disabling the localhost identification in the httpd-vhosts.conf file of Apache in XAMPP prevents the site from running altogether. Specifically,...

I have now tried doing that, but my sites won't work correctly unless the localhost is defined in both the Windows hosts file and in the XAMPP httpd-vhosts.conf file.

I just realized a typo I made in the description of my httpd-vhosts.conf file. I neglected to add "htdocs" between "xampp" and "mysite1"/"mysite2" in the description of the file. I'm not sure if this...

Your summary of my problem is accurate except for one detail: I can run localhost sites so long as I prefix their address with 'localhost', like this:


localhost\mysite\

That works. This does...

Elsewhere in these forums it has been explained that for a localhost site to run in Edge, the Developer's Settings Use Microsoft Compatibility Lists and Allow Localhost Loopback should both be...