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Okay, so I found a (sort of) solution here to what I was looking for, but it still doesn’t quite function the way I’d like.

Now clicking on the thumbs will show that larger image on the same page as opposed to displaying in a pop-up lightbox, which is good.

But this solution loses the “Back/Next” navigation links (which I still need) and displays a blank div where the image is on page load (I need it to be the first image from the gallery on load).

I’m going to keep tinkering/looking, but again any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Thanks for pointing that out. Had to go through a couple of the methods to get it to go. But it’s working now.

Thanks again.

Could you be a bit more specific?

Are you talking about the ones in the general settings in the dashboard? Because I am unable to get there in the local install as it keeps redirecting me to the live site’s dashboard.

Or is there somewhere else you are referring to?

Thanks for the help. The username and password were already ‘root’ I just changed them here (along with the site names) to be generic and also to make it clear what db/directory/etc was associated with which site.

So this was kind of working for a while after re-installing MAMP, and doing fresh installs of WP and then changing:

127.0.0.1   localhost
127.0.0.1   localhost site-1.dev
127.0.0.1   localhost site-2.dev

to

127.0.0.1 localhost
123.0.0.1   site-1.dev
127.0.0.1   site-2.dev

and taking the quotations from the document root paths in the httpd.conf file to have:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/site-1
ServerName local.site-1.dev
<Directory "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/site-1">
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/site-2
ServerName local.site-2.dev
<Directory "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/site-2">
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

For a short time I was able to view both sites through the browser and access both sites in WP. The only problem I was experiencing during this time, was for site-2– after publishing/updating posts and pages or changing certain settings, a blank page would load instead of the same WP page saying “Your post has been updated.” That was acceptable. I could still do everything I needed to do.

But then I tried to add a third site into the mix. This is when things reverted back to problemland. Now site-3 worked fine, both in WP and when viewing the site. But now site-1 was accessible on the backend through WP, but I couldn’t view the actual site (it just loads a blank page, no errors), and site-2 wasn’t accessible through WP (just loads a blank page, no errors), but I can view that site through a browser.

After some digging around and checking error logs I was able to find that the was an extra character/typo in my functions.php files that seemed to be tripping the sites up. Deleted that, and now everything seems to be in working order, at least for the time being.

Thanks again for all of the help.

So, I have been trying to get the virtual hosts to work, but no luck so far, and after looking a bit more into this, I think it’s just that I am using the free version of MAMP as opposed to MAMP Pro. From what I gather, one of the incentives for upgrading to Pro is it has the ability to support multiple sites/virtual hosts whereas the free one does not.

I could be wrong though. I am often enough. If it is possible to do on the free version I would appreciate it if someone could enlighten me, otherwise, I’ll have to wait until the boss approves the upgrade and try it again.

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If I don’t specify the document root to the site-1 or site-2 folder through the Apache preferences, nothing works correctly when there are two sites in the htdocs folder.

On the front end, site-1 still displays as blank pages or 404 errors and site-2 loses all of it’s CSS on the home page, and all of the links/subpages just bring you to a directory listing of the files in the htdocs folder. Plus WP doesn’t come up anymore at all for either site and trying to get to the wp-admin results in a 404 error.

Wouldn’t be surprised if I did something incorrectly on the installation, but I can’t tell what. And what confuses me further is that WP is able to find everything in the dashboard/wp-admin area, but everything is missing when the browser tries to display it.