After wamp/WordPress localhost install, every open is redirected to a Yahoo/Alt

chiron34
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Posted 3 minutes ago # Edit

I have a problem similar to that resolved two days ago: wampserver home page instead of my website.

I am a newbie to WordPress and wamp. I’ve set up local host on wamp server but have run into a technical problem. When I open Firefox>New Tab and enter ‘localhost’, or ‘localhost/wp-admin’, or any localhost-based word combination, I get automatically redirected to an AltaVista search result: http://us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=altavista&itag=ody&q=http://localhost/wp-admin/themes.php.

Is there a reason for this? Do you think I did something wrong in my installation?

It seems to me that a quick fix for this would be to change the name of ‘localhost’ in my wp-config.php file; e.g. – here’s a cut and paste extract from my wp-config.php:

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘WordPress’);

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”);

/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

Is it possible for me to just open wp-config.php and physically change ‘localhost’ to something like: chironhost (based on my project name that uses the word chiron in the title.

I am reluctant to do this by myself when I don’t know if there will be any adverse repercussions from making such a change directly in wp-config.php.

Any suggestions, advice?

Many thanks in advance for looking at this for me.

sincerely

chiron34

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