How to display my sample page?

  • TAB42

    (@tab42)


    13 years ago

    When I login to WP, I get (under Apache/2.4.4 (Win32) PHP/5.4.16)
    ‘Index of /wordpress/wp-admin’
    and a list of many items: Parent Directory, about.php, admin-ajax.php,…index.php,…, widgets.php.
    Why? Seems abnormal to me.

    Anyway, in that list, I click themes.php, which gives me
    http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/themes.php:
    a window with Manage Themes / Install Themes. OK, this seems useful. Twenty Thirteen is the current theme. I click Customize, and get
    ‘You are previewing… what? the large pane on the right is blank.
    I have filled Title and Tagline. Under ‘Static Front Page’, I chose ‘Sample Page’ for both ‘Front page’ and ‘Posts page’, but the display on the right remains blank.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    13 years ago

    Parent Directory, about.php, admin-ajax.php,…index.php,…, widgets.php.

    That’s not WordPress. None of the above are part of the root folder of a WordPress install.

    Thread Starter TAB42

    (@tab42)

    12 years, 12 months ago

    It IS WordPress –but not in the root folder. about.php, admin-ajax.php, …index.php,…, widgets.php are in the wp-admin directory. As to Parent_Directory, it’s an entry made by Apache to help navigate out to the root WP directory.

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    12 years, 12 months ago

    Sounds like you might need to edit your DirectoryIndex directive so Apache will serve index.php pages by default.

    Thread Starter TAB42

    (@tab42)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Thank you. I did that. But I am still lost.
    In the ‘Edit Page’, I have the sample page, containing ‘This is an example page. It’s different from a blog …’. I click ‘View Page’, and get the content of localHost (ie, htdocs) Index.php, which has nothing to do with the sample page. Why? Where is the sample page located? Should I move it to the root (htdocs)?

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Where is the sample page located? Should I move it to the root (htdocs)?

    The data being displayed on the sample page is located in your database. It’s displayed by calling that data into a template located in your active wordpress theme. It isn’t a physical page/file like you might expect to find on an html site.

    …Should I move it to the root (htdocs)?

    Probably not a real reason to move anything to /htdocs if you’re running WordPress locally from a sub-directory.

    Your apache web root is htdocs. The root folder of your WordPress installation is /wordpress because you’ve installed it using a sub-directory.

    Just to rule this out – and I’m only guessing on this – when you installed WordPress, did you enter both addresses in your General Settings as http://localhost/wordpress ?

    Thread Starter TAB42

    (@tab42)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    did you enter both addresses in your General Settings as http://localhost/wordpress

    No. So, I adjusted the 2nd one and… it worked!
    Thank you! TY also for the explanations about WP.

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    You’re welcome. Glad you got it working!

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