WAMP WordPress installation cannot get past step 1, loads indefinitely
here are the instructions i followed: http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/installing-wordpress-locally
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Path Issue – Getting “localhost” instead the IP
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
What should I write in hostname when I try to install a theme?
This happens when WordPress cannot directly (via php) create files inside the wp-content directory. WordPress asks for FTP credentials to try and upload “manually” the files, you should provide the hostname of the ftp server (example: ftp.yourdomain.com), username and password. Of course you have to have an FTP server set up, which is usually straightforward … Read more
Problem copying WordPress site to localhost server
The web server, apache in your case, is listening on port:80 on your localhost. You can tell apache to serve one particular folder based on request name (let’s call it virtual host). To teach apache about that, explore your apache folder (apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf) and add : <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot “/www/example1” ServerName www.example.com </VirtualHost> more info https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/examples.html
Developing on localhost remove “index.php”
What you have locally is called PATHINFO permalinks. It is quite rare configuration since permalinks are either “pretty” (what you have live) or “ugly” (no rewrite at all, GET requests). It is hard to guess why you ended up with PATHINFO configuration if you haven’t deliberately configured it. Might you have used some tool to … Read more
All includes are pointing at local host
You must have to update your website URLs after migrating your site from live server to local or local to live server. Go to your phpmyadmin and select your database, then in SQL section paste the following codes (replace http://www.oldurl.com to your localhost URL and http://www.newurl.com to your existing live domain URL, do it carefully) … Read more
Unable to install and upload theme due to php.ini file [closed]
You should upload the theme manually to the server – copy the theme folder to your system folder corresponding to this URL: http://localhost/lps/wp-content/themes/ After you’re done copying the files, you will get the option to preview or activate the theme in the admin: http://localhost/lps/wp-admin/themes.php Also, make sure you copy only the theme source folder, and … Read more
How do I access a remote database with a local MAMP development install?
What you are trying to do will not work as you local PCs will most likely get different IP addresses from time to time which will mean that you will have to reconfigure your server. Your solution is much simpler…. just host the development site on your server, use the hosts file of your PCs … Read more
mamp localhost not picking up wp-login
If you want to access your WordPress site on the new device with a domain, such as wordpress.local instead of localhost:8888/wordpress, you may want to define a vhost configuration for MAMP first and add a local DNS record in your /etc/hosts file. Once you’ve established the domain you want to use to access the site, … Read more
wordpress not loading on localhost [closed]
Restarting the AMPPS server resolved this issue. Every day since the problem the website has loaded fine since, so it looks like the problem was isolated to one occurrence.