Local Installation – just lists directory

  • Jacob

    (@jake33)


    WCBRS 2019 Contributor

    15 years, 1 month ago

    Hi

    I’m painfully new to wordpress and have hit a problem trying to get a local installation to work. I’ve followed the installation instructions and everything seemed fine, installation was successful and I can log in to the back end.

    The problem is when I go to the root http://localhost/wordpress/ I just get a list of the directory. This happens whenever I try to view the site.

    If I create a page by short-cutting to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/profile.php and making a new post, when I view the post (http://localhost/wordpress/page_id=3) I just get a 404.

    Have I missed something obvious in the installation process? Do I need to define the local folder or something? I’ve tried searching out the problem but to no avail..

    Any help much appreciated

    Jake

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  • s_ha_dum

    (@apljdi)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    I’m assuming a *NIX install. Where your httpd.conf resides has a lot to do with where your Apache server is installed. Mine is in /usr/local/ so httpd.conf is /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf. Apache can be installed in other places though. Type find / -name httpd.conf in a command line shell and see what comes up. Alternately try which httpd, then backtrack in the file path to find the conf directory.

    aislinn

    (@aislinn)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    Thank you SO much – the domain name’s now resolving directly to the blog.

    I’m very grateful for your help.

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