Title: wp-admin not found Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # wp-admin not found * [noelzia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noelzia/) * (@noelzia) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-found/) * Newbie here — just installed WordPress 2.0 to my localhost and tried to log in. I get this msg: File “C:\…\wordpress\wp-admin\” not found * The …\wordpress\wp-admin folder is certainly right there. Why can’t WordPress find it? Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [ziemowit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ziemowit/) * (@ziemowit) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-found/#post-329233) * Have you set up your web browser so it accepts index.php as one of the default web pages (like index.htm, index.html, default.htm and so on)… * Thread Starter [noelzia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noelzia/) * (@noelzia) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-found/#post-329644) * Yes, I checked and it does accept index.php as the default page. * [ziemowit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ziemowit/) * (@ziemowit) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-found/#post-329659) * Well, then you are stuck in the same way as I am right now. I believe the problem is NOT …\wordpress\wp-admin but the redirection from the login page that is ( probably) not complete. If it makes you feel better, I could enter the URL of wp-admin manually and got it to work, to some extent. * Right now I have two “suspects” in this matter: – the web server (I do NOT use Apache) – the PHP version and/or php.ini, I have seen before that WP did not work with PHP5 in the past… * Anyway, I doubt you will ever get any reply here. I tried to get somebody to send me an output from phpinfo() from a working WP-installation. Not a single answer up to now… * My conclusion: – either nobody here can get WP to work in any environment OR– we are just on our own. * [GeriWinters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geriwinters/) * (@geriwinters) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-found/#post-329723) * I was having trouble getting index.php recognized (Solaris, Apache), so I added the following index.html file to both my wordpress main directory and wp-admin: * * Theoretically I shouldn’t “need” this file, but I couldn’t get WordPress to work without it. * Good luck. * Geri * [amm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amm/) * (@amm) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-found/#post-329728) * noelzia’s error message refers to the wp-admin on his local ‘c’ drive – it should be your copy on your remote server you should be pointing to. * [Direkt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/direkt/) * (@direkt) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-found/#post-329729) * Are you running IIS? * [Direkt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/direkt/) * (@direkt) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-found/#post-329730) * Gerri, did you ever try modifying the apache httpd.conf file to accept it? * Specifically: * `DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php` * Thread Starter [noelzia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noelzia/) * (@noelzia) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-found/#post-329830) * I am trying to run wp on my localhost via my php editor (PhpEd), which includes built-in php and mysql. So that’s why it’s looking for wp-admin on my C: drive. And it is, in fact, on my C: drive, right where it should be. Perhaps I just can’t run wp in this environment, although I have no trouble with other php scripts. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘wp-admin not found’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 8 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [noelzia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noelzia/) * Last activity: [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-found/#post-329830) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics