You don’t rename the links with .htaccess when using WordPress. Simply go to Settings->Permalinks from your dashboard and select the scheme you want. Going by your sample URL, you could put /%postname%/ in the Custom Structure field to get just the post name.
Your /etc/users/{username}.conf should look like this: <Directory “/Users/username/Sites/”> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All AuthConfig Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> You also have to change the name Apache runs under to be able to save the .htaccess rules and use the media uploader etc… <IfModule !mpm_netware_module> <IfModule !mpm_winnt_module> User chris Group admin #or you … Read more
Your home page is available on the link in the upper left corner right besides the WordPress logo. Update In your .htaccess or httpd-vhosts.conf you have to declare the index.php as index file, and FollowSymLinks has to be On: # sample .htaccess code Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
here are the instructions i followed: http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/installing-wordpress-locally
Ok this appears to have been solved by turning on short open tag and zlib output compression in the php settings of WAMP
Did you follow the steps outlined here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory Specifically did you copy the .htaccess and index.php files back to the root and edit the index.php file with correct filepaths as stated in points 7 – 9? Update The problem was solved by modifying these two options in the wp_options table: siteurl home (See comments)
“localhost” normally points to the webserver on the machine the request is made from. You installed wordpress on your server to run under “localhost”. So if you open a browser whilst on the server and go to “localhost” it will look for the site on the server and find it. However, if you open a … Read more
Try changing the WP_CONTENT_DIR path in wp-config.php Try adding: define( ‘WP_CONTENT_DIR’, 192.168.X.X . ‘/blog/wp-content’ ); http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Moving_wp-content
You must change the parameters to connect to the database in the file wp-config.php in the root folder of your WordPress installation, or create the same user/password and database name for the database that you have created locally with WAMP. Note: You may have to change the blog_url and every url in the dump that … Read more
Never used SequelPro but in phpMyAdmin sometimes when I create the database I forget to select localhost from the drop down selection. If you just type it into the text field it doesn’t work, you have to select localhost from the dropdown. Ever used XAMPP? I highly recommend it, it’s an all in one package.