Title: localhost browser issue Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # localhost browser issue * [francokeung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francokeung/) * (@francokeung) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-browser-issue/) * I’m using wamp and tyoed in “localhost/wordpress/” in internet explorer’s address box and it works just fine, but when I type the same thing into firefox, it doesn’t work. How do I fix this and make it work? Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/) * (@rossmitchell) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-browser-issue/#post-5302523) * Could you try the following on both browsers: * ``` http://localhost/ http://localhost/index.html http://localhost/wordpress/readme.html http://localhost/wordpress/ ``` * Please report the results. * Thread Starter [francokeung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francokeung/) * (@francokeung) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-browser-issue/#post-5302606) * I tried all of the above and none of them work on firefox still. I even typed in the “[http://”](http://”);. Anymore ideas? * [LyleChamney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lylechamney/) * (@lylechamney) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-browser-issue/#post-5302619) * Perhaps try: * `127.0.0.1/wordpress` * Thread Starter [francokeung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francokeung/) * (@francokeung) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-browser-issue/#post-5302622) * it’s still not working…..I checked again to see if it worked on internet explorer and it didn’t work somehow…….I didn’t know what to do so I reopened and asked me to redownload my wamp (i guess that’s the only way to get into it), went into the phpmyadmin and under my database name file, everything was gone….what’s going on with my system? * Thread Starter [francokeung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francokeung/) * (@francokeung) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-browser-issue/#post-5302623) * i just want to make a website offline so i don’t have to have for the hosting just yet…..is the problem wamp? is there other good programs besides wamp? * [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/) * (@rossmitchell) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-browser-issue/#post-5302624) * `Any good programs besides wamp?` Yes, mine is called LINUX. It is free as in“ free beer”, the online support is free and vibrant. If you want a computer that“ just” works use windows, if you want a computer that just “works” use Linux. * Yes, try the 127.0.0.1 addresses too. * Am I to take it that Internet Explorer shows all 4 of the URLs above are displayed correctly ? * What I am thinking is that something is very wrong with the server install. Or that there is a setting in firefox that is blocking the site. I am certain that this is not a WordPress issue. * Please research your webserver’s documentation and find where it keeps its logs, this will show every request the web server receives. Look there and see the requests made by Internet Explorer, then look for the requests made by firefox, are they there, what happens ? * Thread Starter [francokeung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francokeung/) * (@francokeung) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-browser-issue/#post-5302650) * I tried typing all the url above but it keepss displaying a page that requires me to type in the site name and email as if I was to download wordpress again( like it shows the very last page of installation of wordpress onto wamp before logging into the admin site if you remember that exact page I was talking about), after I did that it’ll say there’s a wordpress database error and that nothing exist it even I do when I created it before. Also, when I typed in * [http://localhost/](http://localhost/) [http://localhost/index.html](http://localhost/index.html) [http://localhost/wordpress/readme.html](http://localhost/wordpress/readme.html) [http://localhost/wordpress/](http://localhost/wordpress/) * It changes to www. instead of hppt://, does thaat make a difference for the computer? * and RossMitchell, this might be a stupid question since I’m not a computer person, but how to you find the webserver’s documentation and logs? * Thread Starter [francokeung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francokeung/) * (@francokeung) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-browser-issue/#post-5302651) * Oh and it’s the firefox that changes to www. from hppt:// * sorry, not internet explorer * [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/) * (@rossmitchell) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-browser-issue/#post-5302657) * I googled `wamp apache log file location` * At this entry: `http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19713001/where-can-i-find- the-wamp-error-log` * It said: * ``` Apache in WAMPServer writes errors to the C:\wamp\logs folder as does MYSQL and PHP If it finds errors before it can open its error.log it will write errors to the Windows Event Log as well. ``` * And suggested: * ``` Try opening a command window and >CD c:\wamp\bin\apache\apachex.y.z\bin Then run httpd -t That should check the config and return you any errors to the command window. ``` Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘localhost browser issue’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Localhost Installs](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/localhost-installs/) * 9 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/) * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-browser-issue/#post-5302657) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics