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1. trituc.cao
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,
   I'm trying to test run wordpress on my PC.However I cannot see my front page: the web browser only displayed the directory listing instead. Please help!

   Software installed:
   WordPress 3.0.1
   PHP 5
   Apache 2.2
   MySQL
   Windows XP (SP2)

   Progress:
   WordPress installation complete.
   Logged in as admin successfully

   Problem:
   After logging in all I saw was the directory listing of wordpress web root folder. Using this directory listing, click wp-admin/ --> index.php, I could go to the admin panel/page where I could create new pages, change themes, settings, etc. However I could never see any page I created or precreated. For any page, if I click 'view' the web root directory listing was displayed (as described above).

   Efforts: I have spent nearly one day trying to solve the problem. I have made the following attempts:
   * Redownload and reinstalling (does not work)
   * Setting static page
   * Changing Appache httpd.conf to include my own wordpress.conf, replacing the original .htaccess with an empty .htaccess in the wordpress folder (does not work)
   * Turn on WP_DEBUG, WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY, WP_DEBUG_LOG by modifying wordpress/index.php: no error message observed, no log file created (in wordpress/wp-content)

   Clue?
   * When I renamed wordpress/index.php to wordpress/index.php.bk, I could still see the directory listing when entered web address: <myipconf>/wordpress. However if I click on the entry 'index.php.bk' the frontpage was displayed however the title (shown in tab) was 'MyWebSitTitle | Not Found'

   Can somebody please help with this?

   Lots of thanks,

   Tuc

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   Below is the content of my wordpress.conf

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
   </IfModule>

   AccessFileName .htaccess
   <Files ~ "^\.htaccess$">
   order allow,deny
   deny from all
   </Files>

   Alias /blog/ "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/wordpress"

   <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/wordpress">
   order allow,deny
   allow from all
   Options All
   AllowOverride All

   AddType text/html .php
   AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
   </Directory>

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   simplify your life and use this - works for me every time
   http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

3. trituc.cao
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks Samuel,

   I think I found the problem. My apache was setup to load a file named "index.html" when a directory is requested. WordPress does not provide any index.html in the root directory, so the server just plainly displayed a directory. To fix this, in the httpd.conf of apache, I change the setting of apache to load the index.php file when a directory is requested:

   #
   # DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
   # is requested.
   #
   <IfModule dir_module>
   DirectoryIndex index.php ### previously set to index.html
   </IfModule>

   The only thing I still don't understand is that, previously when I deliberately tried to load index.php (ie enter the url directly), somehow I could not see the page. Somehow the wordpress is structured not to allowed index.php to be loaded directly.

   Tuc

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