How to transfer a website on my hard drive on a local test server?

My site, I've developed in Dreamweaver CS3, is currently all the static HTML. I do progress to change to have a PHP content, but my initial work is everything on my site online - I want to be able to do the development and testing on a local test server. I have successfully configured the XAMPP and make progress in the development of some pages on a * new * test local site (that I installed for local control to C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs), which I put in place to have a PHP-based dynamic content. What I * don't * find a way to do is to take all my local content for my website online (which is currently under C:/Documents and Settings/MyName/mysite /) and move it to http://localhost/ (in C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs), so I can develop and test new dynamic content for my site locally on my local Web server. I suspect that there are a few simple steps to achieve this goal, but I am quite new to this and cannot understand it. Advice and guidance will be greatly appreciated!

ssickels wrote:
> What I * don't * find a way to do this is
> to take all my local content for my website online (which is currently at)
(> C:/Documents and Settings/MyName/mysite /) and move it to http://localhost/ (in
(> C:/Program Files / xampp / htdocs), so I can develop and test the new dynamic
> content for my site locally on my local Web server.

Open Windows Explorer, navigate to C:/Documents and Settings/MyName /,.
Right-click the MySite folder, and then select copy. Then navigate to the
C:/Program Files / xampp / htdocs, then right-click and select Paste.

Your site will then be http://localhost/MySite/

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