Installing on my local computer

Is there an index.php file in the /wordpress/ directory?

yup. it’s the entire 2.9.2 zip file extracted, so it has the index.php. anything that i might be missing at the apache level?

Add the following to your root .htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

If that doesn’t work, you may need to add index.php to the DirectoryIndex line in your httpd.conf file and restart Apache.

Thank you sir. i took the easy way out (your second suggestion) and stuck the index.php in the DirectoryIndex directive within the httpd.conf.
Looking good now.
Much appreciated.
best,
nilesh

You’re welcome!