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1. Stefan_K
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Hi,

   Is there a way for WP Theme management to recognize themes in a directory other than htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/themes when developing in a XAMPP local server set-up? If so, how does one do this? Is it possible by editing httpd-vhosts.conf or httpd.conf, as with permalinks?

2. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   There is this:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Moving_wp-content

   Assuming you understand you could have a 2nd wordpress at htdocs/mywp or htdocs/mywp3 etc.

3. Stefan_K
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Thanks Michael,

   So it seems 'wp-content/' is the basis for the dashboard to recognize a theme in Theme Management?
   i.e, - one can't configure it to recognize 'C:\website\blog\sitename'?

   I'm new to WP, though not a complete neophyte, - I'm trying to understand using permalinks while developing locally (XAMPPlite) and I've found bits and pieces, but no comprehensive explanation of how it all interacts. Or is that like asking for the grand unified theory?
   (-:

4. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Not sure about xampplite but with xampp you do have to 'turn on' mod_rewrite to support prety permalinks.

5. Stefan_K
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   thanks Michael - I got the 'mod_rewrite', it seems to be pretty well covered on the web.

   What I can't seem to wrap my head around is the local development directory structure - specifically in my case I'm integrating a WP blog into a non-blog site.

   So my existing site is - C:MySite/MyBlog (where I want my blog), and I have Xammp Lite and WP installed - C:xammplite/htdocs/wordpress/ wp-content/themes... and I can log in to WP, localhost, and it's all peachy and working fine.

   What I would like is to be able to keep my existing structure (rather than copying my whole site into the XAMPP Lite structure which can get pretty messy), and set up a Virtual Directory pointing to it.

   Is that possible? Or would it be easier to copy what's needed of the WP file structure into my existing site structure? And if so, what's needed for WP to run? For WP(dashboard - Theme Management) to recognize a theme from C:MySite/MyBlog ?

   some background: I've tryed configuring the Xampplite Apache httpd.conf, httpd-vhosts.conf files and the windows host file, but have not got them to recognize, or been able to open my blog from there (C:MySite/MyBlog).

   What's the best way to set this up? - - I've done a lot of research on this, but I can't quite seem to pull it all together. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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