Apache, localhost and xampp problem

[SykomantiS]

Hi,

So my Campus has a website, which is hosted somewhere. We have to work on the site, so what we did is the following: we copied the site and db as is, nothing changed. Then we created a local host here using xampp and apache. So here's the problem: when you go to the live site, you can view it a should be, both in IE and FF. On the localhost, however, you can only view the site in FF. IE flashes the header image of the index page briefly, then gives a 404 not found error.

As far as I can tell, the live site runs Apache 1.3, while on the localhost we run 2.0. So, is this just a config error on the local host, or is it a case of removing apache 2.0 and running 1.3 instead? If it is just a config error, any idea what I should look for? I'm not well versed with Apache and php and so forth, mostly worked with IIS and .net instead.

Thanks in advance!