Where exactly is the WP blog or site located?

Yeah – I’ve checked out the docs on the WordPress site. Also, I tried the XAMPP thing but gave up on it. Seemed like the software was “old”. Besides I wanted a system that was as-close-as-I-could-get to what we (our non-profit) have running on our live production server hosted elsewhere. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a tutorial for a standalone Apache-based system. When I go to http://localhost/wordpress, I get a 404. I agree with you, I don’t have the files in the right place, but the question is: What IS the right place?

Okay –

I already have that function call saved as “test.php”. Right now it resides in XP at: c:/wordpress. In Apache-land, this is known as the “DocumentRoot”. I can launch the script by sending the browser to http://localhost/test.php and can see all my PHP information nicely displayed. I don’t see any of the MySQL reports as demonstrated in the sample at Finding_Server_Inf. I don’t know if that’s part of the issue here.

So as far as I can tell, I am in the web-root folder. Problem is: “localhost” isn’t a “folder” per se, it is a replacement for “c:/wordpress” (I guess) and I guess I’m just looking for Page1.html or Page2.html somewhere in the filesystem.

Is this making any sense?

Well, let me ask this…

Suppose I was at the desktop and launched a browser session which then goes to my homepage (Google, for example). What command would I then use up in the address bar, to bring up my experimental 7 page WP website? I never seem to be able to “find” the correct address due to the fact that I have it on “localhost” and not a “www.wpblog.com” type thing. I thought it would be “http://localhost/SVdP Test Site” because that’s what I’ve named it. I can definitely get in to the Admin because I’ve done it now a couple hundred times. I just not at all sure how SVdP Test Site can be called from this standalone configuration. Again, in the Admin – upper left hand area there’s a link showing “SVdP Test Site — visit Site” but when clicked it just tosses me to “Index of /” with a list of the .php files and parent folders.

Boy, am I confused! 🙂

More experiments…

I set a new folder at c:/wordpress/svdp. In WP 2.7’s Settings I entered c:/localhost/svdp at “Blog address (URL):”. Reboot so that everything clears and restarts. Again when in the Admin and I hit the “SVdP Test Site – visit site” link in the upper left hand corner, it takes me to a blank page with Index of SVDP / and the word “Parent” one line down. I simply need to find where the 7 page test website is being stored in WordPress… It obviously is not being stored at the “Blog address (URL):”

Where the heck on /localhost/ is the thing hiding???

Hello all. I’m still struggling with this! I can’t seem to understand how the blog is being stored (if that’s the right word) on localhost. I can never get to it and suspect I have the folders/folder structure incorrectly set on the drive. But I don’t know if it’s messed up in mySQL setup, PHP setup or WP.

I moved everything from c:\wordpress It was becoming more and more confusing to me as I’ve been reading and reading trying to come up with the answer. YouTube has some nice videos on the subject of localhost but so far they’re all talking about different systems/software than what I have. Some of it applies and some of it doesn’t. So I moved my files to a different place. Here’s what I have set up now:

Apache Server config: Document Root = c:/svdp/wordpress And on the drive, the related structures are set below underneath that (wp-admin, wp-content and so forth) <Directory> c:/svdp/wordpress> because the instructions say to set it the same as the Doc Root. Again, with this I can get into the Admin Dashboard and change all the settings. In Settings – I have Blog URL and WordPress URL set to: http://localhost

However, in the Dashboard, upper left hand corner, there’a a link that you’re supposed to be able to call up the site in an attempt to see the result of your changes. All I get in the browser is a white page and the listing of what’s inside c:/svdp/wordpress I never get the website/blog. This is why I’m saying, “Where’s the blog being stored?” Let me also ask for some definitive advice about the trailing forward slash on these references? That may be a key to setting the references properly.

I really thank everyone for their patience and of course, the advice I’m being given.

Is the file to be called = “index.php” in some directory somewhere???
Is it “index.html” in some directory somewhere???

I feel like I’m really close to solving this…