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Open your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox... whichever you use) and go to the url:
http://localhost/
That should show you the root folder of your local server. Type in the name of the folder where you installed XOOPS after the last / , that should bring you to your local XOOPS site.
I don't use XSAS so I don't know exactly what you have, but on my system the root folder is called htdocs. 'http://localhost' will show the index.html file from that folder. I have a XOOPS folder called 'xoops', so to get that site to show I type 'http://localhost/xoops/'
Hope that helps, and doesn't make it even more confusing
Rowd