Can't access wordpress site in localhost

  • Resolved AnirudhAnand

    (@anirudhanand)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    Hello ,

    I have installed wordpress on Localhost recently so that I can test some plugins and themes in it. I Installed LAMP server in my debian and installed wordpress over it. Now I can access wordpress and admin login and everything of that sort but can’t get the site. I mean, if I go to https://localhost , it shows only like this :
    “
    It works!

    This is the default web page for this server.

    The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.
    “

    I have added themes, plugins and also some post but I can’t see any of them in localhost. Could someone help me with this issue ?

    Thanks !

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  • Hey, you should remove a file called index.html or index.htm from your site root. This should fix the problem.

    Thread Starter AnirudhAnand

    (@anirudhanand)

    Thank you so much.. It worked. Can you tell me why should we remove it ?

    You had two index files in your site root: index.html (that Apache one) and index.php (the WordPress one). Thus, the web server was recognizing the html one instead of the php one.

    Thread Starter AnirudhAnand

    (@anirudhanand)

    Ooh yeah. Now I got it. thank you so much !

    Hey……
    If you can, never remove that index.html file. It is our default file to test our server.

    “
    It works!

    This is the default web page for this server.

    The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.
    “
    That means our web server is working.

    You can install wp on root folder & access them via https://localhost by removing that index.html file.

    But I sugest to make new folders inside your root folder, install WP etc on that folders & access them via https://localhost/yourfoldername url.

    This method is better because you have too many web applications to test in feature.

    I am having a similar problem using WAMP with Windows 7 64 bit. When I type localhost/myfile I get at the top Index of /myfile. Next line reads:
    Name Last modified Size Description

    Third line: Parent Directory
    Fourth line: wordpress/ (followed by date and time)

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks

    The forum rules require you to start a new thread. You are very fortunate that anyone happened to read this thread at all since it is marked as “resolved”.

    From what you have said your website address is:
    https://localhost/myfile/wordpress

    I strongly suggest that rather than using localhost as your webserver name, that you go to the minimal extra trouble of configuring apache to use a “VirtualHost”, it will do you good to find the answer in this forum, I solved a problem similar to this yesterday.

    In debian 7 with LAMP server running.
    What I did was have the path to extracted wordpress.zip (downloaded) pasted in the default file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/

    That is essentially replacing /var/www to the wordpress directory structure.

    DocumentRoot /home/user/mywordpress/

    <Directory /home/user/mywordpress>

    Is this an OK way of doing it?

    Hello @ajeya, yes that probably is OK, you have not really supplied enough details.

    You really should start a new thread of your own.

    Thanks for your response Ross. I’ll repost.

    Some time It happens when running localhost meanwhile skype application is running.

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