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1. binnyoinam
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #
   

   Hi, I installed wampserver succesfully on my 64 bit Windows 7 and installed wordpress on it too. Everything went off smoothly and I was able create a local site with it. But the problem came when I used WAMP the next time. I was able to visit the local site through localhost but I am unable to access the wordpress dashboard. Am I doing something wrong? Or how do I access the wordpress dashboard so that I can tweak the theme?

2. s_ha_dum
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #
   

   Unable to access the dashboard in what why? What are the details?

3. binnyoinam
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #
   

   I mean I cannot access the wordpress dashboard from wampserver installed in my PC.

4. ClaytonJames
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #
   

   I think what s_ha_dum might be asking you is, in what way specifically, can you not access the dashboard? Some possible scenarios might be:

   • You can't get to /wp-admin using //localhost/wp-admin, or //localhost/login, or //localhost/wp-login.php
   • You can reach the login page, but you get some type of error messsage. ie.. wrong password, username doesn't exist. etc...
   • You can access the login page, but you get an error message or a just a blank page after loging in.

   Share a little detail about what is, or isn't happening. That might be helpful in determining what the problem might be.

5. binnyoinam
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #
   

   Thanks ClaytonJames for making it clear. I don't get any error message as such. I doubt I am accessing WAMP in a wrong way. Well, when I start the wampserver, I get an icon on the notification bar which turns red to orange and finally to green. I access it by clicking the icon and then local host on the topmost which lands me on the wampserver homepage.On the page under "Your Projects", I have "Project1" which I have created. Clicking upon Project1 leads me to a page which lists two directories: the first one says Parent directory and the other wordpress. Further, clicking on wordpress takes me directly to the local site I have created without giving me the trouble to log in through the wordpress dashboard. This is the problem I am facing now since I want to test and tweak the theme I installed. Help me out!

6. ClaytonJames
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #
   

   clicking on wordpress takes me directly to the local site I have created without giving me the trouble to log in through the wordpress dashboard.

   What happens when you choose the wordpress directory, and then add /wp-admin to the end of the url in the browser?

7. binnyoinam
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #
   

   By adding /wp-admin as in localhost/Project 1/wordpress/wp-admin, the browser takes me directly on the google search page.

8. ClaytonJames
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #
   

   the browser takes me directly on the google search page.

   Avoid using spaces in your directory names. I suspect you have some sort of issue with the sub-directories. There also really isn't any need to install wordpress two sub-directories deep in WAMP.

   You might try installing wordpress at /www/wordpress. Then your path to wp-admin will simply be //localhost/wordpress/wp-admin

9. binnyoinam
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #
   

   Thanks a lot Clayton, I'll do as you suggest. I will get back to you again soon. Thanks once again.

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