Comments on: Install WordPress Locally - Part 2 Of 2

By: kris

kris — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:33:16 +0000

Works like a charm…Great explanation…wow! Hats off

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WordPress Weekly - Episode 1 | Jeffro2pt0 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:06:54 +0000

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By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:51:57 +0000

I too am getting Monika’s problem. WAMP’s splashpage shows up whenever I try to “visit site” or view an entry. When I tried to go about fixing it, I now get to “index of /wordpress,” where /wordpress is the test directory I have sitting inside the www folder.

Thanks for the great write-up, but this just has me frustrated. Any idea on why Wordpress isn’t generating the main index?

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:58:04 +0000

Hi - great tutorial. Thank you. I didn’t read every comment (but I did read most of them) so hopefully this bit of info isn’t duplicated.

1. I don’t think you mention creating the DB before doing the import. I learned the database needs to be created first.

2. When installing WAMP make sure you get the mySQL addon for version 5.0.45. This is because the version included by default (5.0.51) has known issues with wordpress.

Thanks again!

By: Jeffro2pt0

Jeffro2pt0 — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:45:14 +0000

@Brian Thanks for the comments. Glad that Wamp is holding up for you.

By: brian

brian — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:20:45 +0000

Jeff, thanks for the tutorial! wamp is *much* better than the xampp install i was using. deleted it entirely. WampServer for the win.

By: Meltem

Meltem — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:33:54 +0000

I have downloaded Wordpress 1.3.3 and unzip the files under root/wpmu folder. a) there is no install.php but index-install.php under the root/wpmu folder as well as under the wp-admin folder.
b)when I run these files it gives me an error “Problem is wp-config.php - $base is set to BASE when it should be the path like “/” or “/blogs/”! please fix it!.
c) when I made the changes (either $base = ‘/’ or ‘/blog/’ or ‘/wpmu/’) in the config file then it gives me “No WPMU site defined on this host.
So, what now?
PS: I have created the database using phpMyAdmin and I am not using WAMPS - Apache 2, PHP 5, and MySQL are running well. I have other apps running on the same server.

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:51:20 +0000

What about enabling mod_rewrite , with a .htaccess file?

By: Monika

Monika — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:22:31 +0000

Thank you for this tutorial. I was able to install WAMPS onto my hard drive and move all the wp folders into the www folder of WAMPS. It also guided me to input my username (which was populated with admin) and a pre-populated password. I’m not in my wordpress admin (had no trouble login in, but when I try to look at my site or a test post I just did, it shows the WAMP5 Homepage (http://localhost/?p=3)instead.

How can I get to see my local WordPress instead?

By: Linda Carter

Linda Carter — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:09:30 +0000

I’m curious to see how things would work if I just did the fresh install of wordpress. There are only a few posts. I could bring them in manually, bring in the stylesheet and do the experiments I need to do.

By: Jeffro2pt0

Jeffro2pt0 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:09:04 +0000

@Linda Linda, I have had to uninstall and reinstall Wamp a number of times because it’s easy to do and it’s the fastest way of starting over from scratch. I wouldn’t worry about it and would give it a try.

By: Linda Carter

Linda Carter — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:56:14 +0000

I almost had this licked. I was able to get my index page to come up locally, but it couldn’t find the stylesheet or the posts. I referred to this:

“At this point, the folder structure within the WWW folder on your hard drive should mimic that of what you would see within the Public_HTML folder on your webhost.”

I then rearranged all the files so that the www contents mimiced the root of my server. (I am not able to access public_html. The ftp info provided takes me straight to the root of the site.)

Now I can’t get wamp to come up at all. It just loads and loads forever. I fear I deleted/stored over some of the wamp files. Should the index.php file in the root of www be a wamp file, or a wordpress file?

I’m tempated to delete everything and start over, but I’m worried the wamp won’t uninstall fully and I’ll have more issues to contend with.

Thanks

By: Testing on Mulitple Versions

Testing on Mulitple Versions — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:05:38 +0000

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By: Mike - Twenty Steps

Mike - Twenty Steps — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:58:09 +0000

First off thank you so much for writing this tutorial. I’d been planning on doing this for ages but put it off because it seemed so complicated. With your tutorial I managed to get a local install set up in 10 minutes.

One thing that I initially couldn’t work out was how to create an .htaccess file. Changing permalink structures and some WP plugins require you to make changes to your .htaccess file but the default WampServer install didn’t include one within the www directory.

If anyone else has this problem all you need to do is left click on your WampServer icon, select Apache—Apache Modules and then click on rewrite_module. This will then create an .htaccess file in your www directory.

By: ayusli

ayusli — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:01:00 +0000

I got my local blog working now, all thanks to John Kolbert.

By: Jeffro2pt0

Jeffro2pt0 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:08:15 +0000

@chad Glad everything worked out for you Chad.

By: Chad

Chad — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:17:08 +0000

Nevermind. I looked under “local host” in WAMPserver and then clicked “wordpress” under “Your Projects.” That took care of the install. I should’ve guessed that the url would not work when typed directly into my browser. I suppose it was looking for that url on the web as opposed to locally. Yes? Okay, well thanks again for a great resource! I’m looking forward to using this powerful tool for developing all my WP sites.
C

By: Chad

Chad — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:57:49 +0000

Thanks for the this tutorial. It was so easy, even a card carrying Neanderthal like me was able to follow it. Now on to my question.

After following your instructions on a fresh install of wordpress, I pointed my browser to the url included in the post but was met with an “error 404 Not Found” message.

Can you help?

Thanks,
C

By: John Kolbert

John Kolbert — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:19:37 +0000

Never mind, I fixed it. I turned my permalink structure back into the default method (?p=blah), and then the PHP functions took over.