Generally you should only configure WP for localhost if you have physical possession of the computer/server. You cannot access localhost of a remote computer. Well there are tricks that this is beyond the scope of this discussion. Edited to add To install WP on localhost, after installing the WP files, go to: http://localhost/ or if … Read more
All scripts and style links return 404 on a local virtualhost
Why I obtain a white page when I import a backup of an old WP blog on my local web server? [duplicate]
Turns out this was an issue with my current Apache install. After uninstalling an reinstalling the latest version of Apache, everything worked as expected.
First thing that comes to mind, is that you haven’t set up an actual database to link the wordpress to so please follow this steps: navigate in your browser to http://localhost/phpmyadmin (I hope it is installed) Create a database with the name wordpress (or whatever else you want) Navigate to your wordpress directory on localhost … Read more
Changing themes on locally hosted webpages
Found answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19718745/3691686 wampmanager -> PHP -> PHP Extensions -> php_zip
Found the problem. It was with my .htaccess file. While I had changed RewriteBase / to RewriteBase /mysite I did not realize I also had to change RewriteRule . /index.php [L] to RewriteRule . /mysite/index.php [L] That fixed it.
Unable to access WordPress server locally running using vagrant
There are two components to a web site: files and data. Files WP tends to use simplistic directory structure with all of the files in web root. Getting files in place is a matter of unpacking them to a new location. Data Data is a little more tricky. Typically it would be a dump of … Read more