title: How do you run an existing Magento site locally with XAMPP
body: <p>My company contracted out their e-commerce website to a third party company. It is a Magento site that is currently be hosted by them. We are trying to figure out if we can take the code repository as is and throw it on a server somewhere to get it to run. I'm currently trying to get it to run using XAMPP but am not having any luck.</p>
  <p>I'm not at all familiar with this type of project and am wondering how to even get it to run. The code repository that we have has a whole bunch of PHP files and what-not. When I try to navigate to what I think would be the home/index page I just get a message saying an error occurred. It couldn't write it to the log. There's no message anywhere that contains the actual error.</p>
  <p>I am wondering if I am missing something somewhere or what?</p>