After wamp/WordPress localhost install, every open is redirected to a Yahoo/Alt

  • chiron34
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    Posted 3 minutes ago # Edit

    I have a problem similar to that resolved two days ago: wampserver home page instead of my website.

    I am a newbie to WordPress and wamp. I’ve set up local host on wamp server but have run into a technical problem. When I open Firefox>New Tab and enter ‘localhost’, or ‘localhost/wp-admin’, or any localhost-based word combination, I get automatically redirected to an AltaVista search result: https://us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=altavista&itag=ody&q=https://localhost/wp-admin/themes.php.

    Is there a reason for this? Do you think I did something wrong in my installation?

    It seems to me that a quick fix for this would be to change the name of ‘localhost’ in my wp-config.php file; e.g. – here’s a cut and paste extract from my wp-config.php:

    // ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
    /** The name of the database for WordPress */
    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘WordPress’);

    /** MySQL database username */
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);

    /** MySQL database password */
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”);

    /** MySQL hostname */
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

    /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
    define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

    /** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
    define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

    Is it possible for me to just open wp-config.php and physically change ‘localhost’ to something like: chironhost (based on my project name that uses the word chiron in the title.

    I am reluctant to do this by myself when I don’t know if there will be any adverse repercussions from making such a change directly in wp-config.php.

    Any suggestions, advice?

    Many thanks in advance for looking at this for me.

    sincerely

    chiron34

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  • you are putting localhost into your search engine ? type local host into browser or try 127.0.0.1/your wordpress folder

    Thread Starter chiron34

    (@chiron34)

    Hi, loughcorrib, Thanks for taking the trouble to review my difficulty. I think you have hit upon the real problem, because I myself have realised that my post above is not a correct reflection of the problem.

    Upon review, I came to the conclusion that I was on the wrong tram in the way that I was looking at the problem. I concluded that it was not so much a WAMP/WordPress problem as a Firefox problem where Firefox was looking at the ‘localhost’ entry in the URL bar as keywords (as a search term) for an external search engine search and not a link to an internal file. So I wrote up the problem from that alternative perspective and posted it on an appropriate Firefox forum. The link is here:

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/927780#answer-335187

    I have had a couple of responses on that forum, but am yet to work through the latter two as they were posted during my night and I have only just read them. I am in Brisbane, Australia.

    I am a novice in this field, so I am not sure how to implement your suggestion that I ‘try 127.0.0.1/your wordpress folder’. Perhaps you could explain the process in a little more detail for me.

    sincerely,

    chiron34

    Thread Starter chiron34

    (@chiron34)

    loughcorrib,

    I thought you might be interested to find out how my WAMP/WordPress localhost problem was resolved following my post to the Firefox forum. You can access my post and the responses at:

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/927780#answer-335377

    I was working through some suggestions put forward by helpful forum contributors to fix the problem when, about five hours ago, we had a sudden blackout. This is a very unusual occurrence here in Brisbane, a major urban centre. At the time, I was in Firefox Safe Mode checking whether the problem was caused by a faulty add-on or plug-in, as suggested by one of the contributors on the Firefox forum. When the power eventually came on again after a few hours, I was worried that the sudden close down of Firefox in Safe Mode may have caused some additional problems. I needn’t have worried.

    On re-opening Firefox, I began doing some tests as suggested by another of the forum contributors when I discovered that everything was working perfectly! My localhost problem seemed to have miraculously fixed itself. Don’t ask me how, because I have no logical explanation. The Firefox Gods were clearly working for me. I am not however writing the problem off completely yet, as it may recur. But for now, it’s back to normal. Whew!!

    sincerely,

    chiron34

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