Failed WordPress installation

  • I tried to install WordPress on computer yesterday and failed because I get a “HTTP Error 404.0 – Not Found” message when I try to access https://localhost/wordpress/wp-login.php.
    Do I need to uninstall and reinstall the program? How do I do that (I did the installation useing Windows Installer) Thanks.

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  • I did the installation useing Windows Installer

    Sorry? WordPress doesn’t have a Windows installer. Are you running a local server?

    Hi vnick567,

    esmi is right – WordPress is not a Windows application, but something that needs to run on a webserver application, and be viewed from within your browser.

    I suspect you don’t have a webserver application installed on your PC, such as Apache, WAMPServer or XAMPP. To test this, could you please enter https://127.0.0.1/ into your internet browser, and post back what you get? I suspect you may get a 404 error – if so, I think I will need to take you through installing a webserver (don’t worry – it is easy to do!).

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    This may help:

    https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

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