title: How to link to external sites in xampp
body: <p>i am using Xampp and when i am trying access any online website using this code </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="www.xyz.com"&gt;Click&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>it shows this in the url field</p>
  
  <pre><code>localhost/www.xyz.com
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>how to link to www.xyz.com directly ...</p>
  
  <p>i also tried to use</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;base href=""&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it doesn't seen to work .</p>
  
  <p>i also tried using javascript and php redirects , but still i am getting the same error</p>