Unable to login to the admin area locally

Hi

Can you tell us what the error message is when you try to log in?

Turn on display errors for PHP so that you get some feedback from the webserver.

Issues to start with:

Don't run 7.4 yet as there are outstanding issues. 7.3 is recommended.

Make sure you are running Perch in the root of your web server installation. If not, then you need to move it to the root or create a virtual directory. I don't know XAMMP I'm afraid but you'll find tons on it on other forums.

Hope this moves you along a bit.

Jon