Local install not displaying pages

  • bobthequiz

    (@bobthequiz)


    16 years, 9 months ago

    Ive been building a fairly large wordpress site on my desktop machine using XAMPP under Windows Vista.

    I’ve migrated it to my laptop so I can show it to people before I make it public (it’s replacing an existing site) but I can’t get the pages to display.

    All the pages are there, I can edit them on my laptop, but when I try to view page, or visit the site then the pages return a 404 not found error.

    I’ve tried resetting the permalinks but that hasn’t helped.

    Any suggestions?

    Cheers

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  • Thread Starter bobthequiz

    (@bobthequiz)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    interesting… it was a permalink problem, had to reset to default and reload everything.

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    if you want the pretty permalinks you need to do this

    * You do not need to use the inbuilt editor to change any WP files. Just open them directly in your text editor, make your changes and then save. As there is no uploading to do, it makes things much much faster – and you can do this without an internet connection too.
    * If you want to use permalinks, you will need to make a change inside another file:
    Click the Start button, followed by My Computer > Main drive > Xampplite > apache > Conf and find the file httpd.conf. Open that in a text editor. Use the search facility in the editor to find “rewrite”. The line you need looks like this:

    #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

    You need to take away the hash sign so it looks like this

    LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

    Now just save the file.

    reference
    http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

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