Why does chrome keep downloading a file instead of running the site?

What I do

1. On receipt of WordPress files and Db install in my localhost directory (I use EasyPHP Dev server)

2. I then install Db and change wp-config.php to connect to local db etc.

3. Then copy .htacces to htaccess.back

4. Edit .htaccess to point at local dir structure (in this case find “~porterp6” and replace with “wordpress2”

5. Edit the wp-config.php file in your local directory with

   define('WP_HOME','http://localhost/wordpress2/'); define('WP_SITEURL','http://localhost/wordpress2/');

6. In this case, also comment out the handler (line 2)

Your .htaccess would look like this

# Use PHP5.4 as default
#AddHandler application/x-httpd-php54 .php

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteBase /wordpress2/
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress2/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Afterwards

After you have done the work you need to do

1. Zip all the files in wordpress2 dir up
2. Enter the zip and
3. Delete the .htaccess from the zip
4. Rename htaccess.back to .htaccess

5. Comment out the wp-config.php manual site location entries like this:

   #define('WP_HOME','http://localhost/wordpress2/'); #define('WP_SITEURL','http://localhost/wordpress2/');

You are ready to send back to the client – how to automate that last part – is a different question – how to remember to do it when you send it over in future – another question – form a habit of checking it is how I handle that.