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1. mme42
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   I've been trying to set up a wordpress site (2.9.1) locally with XAMPP for Windows Version 1.7.0 on Windows 7 64bit. The problem is that after I messed with my permalink structure, clicking on categories now directs to my xampp web root (http://localhost/xampp/). I am *almost* sure that links were working before I changed the permalinks. Here's some info to eliminate some of the possible problems:

   • Directory is http://localhost/xampp/wp/wptest. The windows directory structure goes like this: C:/xampp/htdocs/xampp/wp/wptest. The xampp directories are how it comes out of the box, I didn't change it to use a virtual host or anything like that.
   • All wp files are still in default directory
   • WordPress address and blog address are set correctly to http://localhost/xampp/wp/wptest (I even tried trailing / 's)
   • Changed permalinks to /%year%/%category%/%postname%/
   • Links now redirect to http://localhost/xampp/
   • Mod rewrite is enabled/loaded according to httpd.conf and phpinfo()
   • As far as I can tell FollowSymLinks is active for C:/xampp/htdocs. I also tried adding another entry for the wp directory specifically and tried several different variations.

     In the httpd.conf it already has:
     

     <Directory />
     	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
     	AllowOverride All
     	Order deny,allow
     	Deny from all
     </Directory>

     AND

     <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs">
     	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
     	AllowOverride All
     	Order allow,deny
     	Allow from all
     </Directory>

     I also tried:

     <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs">
     	Options Indexes +FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
     	AllowOverride All
     	Order allow,deny
     	Allow from all
     </Directory>

     And, I tried adding another entry using both of the above for directories C:/xampp/htdocs/xampp/wp/wptest, C:/xampp/htdocs/xampp, http://localhost/xampp/wp/wptest, a few other variations.

   • I can't chmod and it shouldn't even be applicable because on windows (though the site will eventually probably be on a linux server when it goes live)
   • WP is automagically updating my htaccess file. Here is what it looks like currently with the custom structure of /%year%/%category%/%postname%/
     

     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
     RewriteEngine On
     RewriteBase /
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
     </IfModule>
     
     # BEGIN WordPress
     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
     RewriteEngine On
     RewriteBase /xampp/wp/wptest/
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
     RewriteRule . /xampp/wp/wptest/index.php [L]
     </IfModule>
     
     # END WordPress

   • The default wp permalinks work, but none of the custom structures work including the 3 that you can select without inputting tags manually
   • xampp works well for me in general for other things, I've been using it with vBulletin test sites for close to a year.

   Where do I go from here to solve this? I hope I've included the necessary info. If anything else is needed, just let me know where to check because I don't know much about this apache and htaccess stuff.

   Thanks.

   PS. I'm new to WP but I'm really liking it and everything I've read so far. I'm hoping to get a lot more into it especially for use as a CMS.

2. seofurnace
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   The fix for it!

   Make sure you have the usual httpd file fixes for pretty permalinks.

   check in windows that the "users" permission for your WordPress Installations .htaccess file has full control. We had ours set by default to read only for whatever reason, so by changing the permissions to full access... you can see that beautiful About Us page again using XAMPP.

   Hope that helps 7 months later... but its a good fix!

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