wp-admin/admin.php is blank … ??

cbiweb
(@cbiweb)

20 years, 11 months ago

New user, first experience with blogging software, and first time install of WP 1.5 on localhost to learn it before I put it up on a remote server. I have Apache, MySQL and PHP installed, all recent versions. Installing WP went perfectly. The only thing I don’t understand is when I go to wp-admin/admin.php, all I get is a blank page.

How do I access the admin tools so I can style WP, or do anything else? The documentation is slightly confusing to me, so I had to finally ask here. 🙂 Thanks for any help.

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Cyndy Otty
(@ceo)

20 years, 11 months ago

http://your-domain-here/wp-admin/ is the link you need.

Thread Starter cbiweb
(@cbiweb)

20 years, 11 months ago

Yes, when I go to http://localhost/blog/wp-admin/ , I then see the directory listing (“Index of /blog/wp-admin”). So where do I go from there?

lawtai
(@lawtai)

20 years, 11 months ago

you should’nt be seeing a directory listing as when you goto /wp-admin/ it should redirect you to wp-admin/index.php.

You might need to add in a htaccess file the following line as I’m not sure how to manually set it in apache to not list directories:

Options -Indexes

Thread Starter cbiweb
(@cbiweb)

20 years, 11 months ago

Ah, ok. Thank you. It’s very late here now, so I’ll try first thing in the morning and post back with how it went.

angsuman
(@angsuman)

20 years, 11 months ago

Ensure that you have index.php added in httpd.conf. Make modification as shown below:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.jsp index.php index.htm

# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
# is requested.

Thread Starter cbiweb
(@cbiweb)

20 years, 11 months ago

angsuman, that was the ticket! Everything is working perfectly now. Thank you!

innerchild
(@innerchild)

20 years, 11 months ago

were do i find the httpd.conf file?

Thread Starter cbiweb
(@cbiweb)

20 years, 11 months ago

Go to your Apache folder (wherever you placed it on your hard drive), then into the conf folder, and in there is httpd.conf