Getting 404 on front end and back end after installed Magento 2.4.2 in XAMPP, Windows 10 HOw to fix these

Question

I'm new in magento and need to fix these issue

error appears - "Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server. Apache/2.4.46 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.1.1h PHP/7.4.15 Server at localhost Port 80"

appears 404 on front end and back-end also

OS: Windows 10,

Xampp v3.2.4,

Composer tried both v1 & v2,

Mangento Version: 2.4.2,

elasticsearch-7.11.2,

please help to get these fix!!!!

Answer 1

you must configure a virtual host for your magento installation and make sure the document root set in your apache configuration points to <magento_root>/pub folder.

Check this thread frontend and admin not working magento 2.4.2 upgrade for more details.