I have several local installations, though not through WAMP, I use a Linux O/S. All the sites work while offline. I do get some PHP warnings about bad connections because WP_DEBUG is on, but everything local functions properly.
I think the text tab being unresponsive is due to a JavaScript error. Open your browser console and clear any existing errors. Load a page for editing and try to go to the Text tab. Make note of any JavaScript errors that show up in the console. They will be clues to what is causing the problem.
I’m not aware of any reason you cannot do a private intranet. WAMP should work fine for this, but ideally you’d want Apache running on a Linux box. This is by no means a requirement, but it’s typically less troublesome. Beyond the usual Linux troubles anyway. Nothing’s ideal.
Hi, I ended up reinstalling wordpress but on the second occasion I did the multisite settings and amended the .htaccess file as per a different tutorial (there are so many differing ones) is this why it didn’t work first time as these were not done?
Anyway I can add content now. I did not get prompted for the phpadmin software during the seond wordpress install do I need it?
Obstacles now are allowing the site to be accessed from the rest of the network users. Getting no permissions error for site rat the moment when trying to access using IP address in URL.
.htaccess problems usually cause numbered server errors like 403, 404, 500, etc. It usually does not cause glitchy behavior in WP, but it is possible.
Prompted for phpadmin software? WP doesn’t need such software, it only needs the WAMP basics like Apache, PHP, mySQL. Could the prompt be related to setting up WAMP, like do you want phpMyAdmin installed? If WP started up, then the needed software is there.
We can probably just say we don’t know what happened but it’s working now.
I’m not able to give any good intranet advice. If your server reliably gets the same IP address every time the router is reset then I think you just need to make a hosts file entry to map the IP to a friendly name, as in 192.168.0.2 casper
But don’t take my word for it. Good luck!
