WebsterInkHi,
This is my first use of WordPress & first post here, so any assistance greatly appreciated.
I installed 3.1 from scratch as a sub-folder on my local test server without any problems. However, when accessing the page from my browser (Firefox or IE) i.e. http://localhost/wordpress/, the folder contents are displayed rather than the index.php page. Clicking on index.php produces the same result.
It took a short while to locate the Control Panel, but from what I can tell, everything seems to be in order. It indicates I have some sample content, I just can't view it. Clicking on View Post or View Page brings up the same root folder listing, so I presume the problem is with index.php.
Initially I thought I had a problem as I couldn't see a Visit Site button, but discovered that this is standard with current release, just not mentioned @ codex.wordpress.org/First_Steps_With_WordPress.
If I try loading any of the required files in index.php, or wp-blog-header.php an empty HTML file is displayed, i.e.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>From looking at the source of these files, I noticed that a few items are commented out:
e.g.index.php
<?php
/**
* Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
* wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
*
* @package WordPress
*/
/**
* Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
*
* @var bool
*/
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>Should the package & bool references be uncommented for it to work?
Searching the forum gave me a few things to look at, but no definitive answers.
Current configuration:
Apache: 2.2.11 (Win32)
PHP: 5.2.9
MYSQL: 5.1.30 Community
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Webster
Erik