Make sure all of your WampServer indicators are green (or restart the services to be sure), then try localhost/wordpress/wp-login.php and see if anything different happens.
– Can you bring up the wamp info and project page at //localhost
– Can you open phpmyadmin from the wamp menu in the system tray
– If yes to both of those, what do you see at //localhost/wordpress/readme.html
Yep both wamp info and project page work at //localhost as well as phpmyadmin. What I see at //localhost/wordpress/readme.html is
Version 4.1.1
Semantic Personal Publishing Platform
First Things First
Installation: Famous 5-minute install
Updating
Migrating from other systems
System requirements
Online Resources
Final Notes
That’s a good sign. WAMP/Apache is working, php appears to be parsing php pages, and .html is being rendered as it should. That all seems to be okay.
One or two more quick questions:
– What do you get when you visit the Wamp projects page and click directly on the ‘wordpress’ project folder? Do you see the front page of your site, an all white page, or an error message? If it’s an error message other than a 404, please paste the complete error message here if you could.
– What did you actually see when you tried http://localhost/wordpress/wp-login.php in your browser? Did it return the 404 error again, or something different that time?
– Can you think of any changes you made between the last time it worked, and now that it doesn’t? For example, were you experimenting with any plugins (especially any that may be security related) or did you apply a different theme, or make any file edits, or make any changes in the .htaccess file or your permalinks?
Hi sorry for the late reply.
– When I visit the Wamp project page and click on wordpress, it says:
“This page cannot be found”
– What I saw when I tried http://localhost/wordpress/wp-login.php was:
“Not Found
The requested URL /wordpress/login/ was not found on this server.
Apache/2.4.9 (Win64) PHP/5.5.12 Server at localhost Port 80″
– The only change I made was installing this theme called Hirebee from Appthemes. I don’t know if it’s responsible, but it’s the only thing that’s different
– I’ve re-installed wordpress and Wamp and it’s up and running again, but I fear it’s only a matter of time before it does this again…
I had this exact problem. The cause in my case was I had been locked out of my site by the “limit login attempts plugin”. I had to rename the plugins folder to see the login page. But to actually get in I had to login from a different IP.
