Title: WordPress problem over XAMPP Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # WordPress problem over XAMPP * Resolved [gabigatzki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabigatzki/) * (@gabigatzki) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-problem-over-xampp/) * Hello, I am new to wordpress and I am trying to run it on the XAMPP machine i have installed on my computer, and for some reason when I run my index.php file it says the following: “Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\index.php on line 1”. * What I have done: I have installed XAMPP v3.2.1 and started the apache and mysql, both are over a green background so they seem to be running fine. Next I opened localhost in my browser and created a new database named wordpress. I then downloaded wordpress v4.0 and unziped it into htdocs, then i changed the file wp-config- sample.php to be named wp-config.php and changed the database name to ‘wordpress’, username to ‘root’ and password to ”. Now i tried going to [http://localhost/wordpress](http://localhost/wordpress) and it seems to work fine i have an hello world there and some example template. Then i tried creating my own files. I modifyed index.php to be the following code: *

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* and created an header.php file which looks like this: * Tutorial theme

* I and now when i go to [http://localhost/wordpress/](http://localhost/wordpress/) it showed me the error message I stated in the beginning of this post, Im not sure what im missing here and why wont it work. * Thanks in advance for any help, and sorry for the long post, Gabi. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-problem-over-xampp/#post-5292781) * I would expect your error message to point to a file in your “themes” directory, how come you’re editing a file at root? * Thread Starter [gabigatzki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabigatzki/) * (@gabigatzki) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-problem-over-xampp/#post-5292783) * Just wanted to play with it for a little bit to see that everything works. I also tried running an existing theme(I think) [http://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/](http://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/) and i get this message: Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\twentyfourteen\index.php on line 17 * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-problem-over-xampp/#post-5292785) * I think you may have replaced the index.php file in your root directory. It should be this: [https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/index.php](https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/index.php) * Thread Starter [gabigatzki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabigatzki/) * (@gabigatzki) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-problem-over-xampp/#post-5292788) * I have changed the index file back to the original one, and opened a test directory and placed my index.php and header.php in it, and now im trying to run [http://localhost/wordpress/test/](http://localhost/wordpress/test/) and still get the same error message. * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-problem-over-xampp/#post-5292789) * What if you put your test folder in the “themes” directory? Then activate that theme in the dashboard * Thread Starter [gabigatzki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabigatzki/) * (@gabigatzki) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-problem-over-xampp/#post-5292793) * I did that and now once I have loaded it as my theme and opened localhost/wordpress/ it does seem to work, thanks alot 🙂 * Shouldnt it also be working the way I treid before though? Do i have to load a theme to check how it looks? cant i jsut run the files? * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-problem-over-xampp/#post-5292796) * I googled your error message and a lot of the responses were “RESPECT THE DIRECTORY STRUCTURE”, so I would guess not. * Thread Starter [gabigatzki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabigatzki/) * (@gabigatzki) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-problem-over-xampp/#post-5292798) * Ok, ill stick to that way, thank. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘WordPress problem over XAMPP’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [gabigatzki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabigatzki/) * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-problem-over-xampp/#post-5292798) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics

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