404 on my wamp install

1. Download wordpress and know where your unzipped “wordpress” folder is located.
2. Know where your WAMP document root is – I would expect it to be c:\wamp\htdocs for a default install
3. copy the wordpress folder to your document root folder and leave untouched (this will be you base to install multiple test wordpress sites).
3. while in Windows Explorer at c:\wamp\htdocs your should now see a wordpress folder.
4. make of copy of the wordpress folder which should create a folder named wordpress Copy.
5. Rename your wordpress folder to you new site test name (something for you to make up) for example testsite1
6. you should now have a folder c:\wamp\testsite1
7. Verify your WAMP Apache and MySql servers are active
8. Go to localhost/phpmyadmin in your browser (or how ever you get to phpMyAdmin in WAMP
9. in phpMyAdmin Create a new database – your name choice – something like testdb1 (remember this, it is needed for the install)
10. while still in phpMyAdmin go to databases and click your database
11. while still in your new database click the Privileges tab
12 Click add new user – again give any name and password you’d like just remember them (also make sure server is “localhost”) – for our example you should have something like user = testuser1 and password testpass1.
13. ******* now you are ready to Install WordPress *******
14. In you browser address window type localhost/testsite1/wp-admin hit enter and you should begin the wordpress install dialogue (which should begin with an offer to create your config file – let it and then it will ask for the database info from above.

Hope this helps.