Local website not working

  • Resolved BlackBelt2025

    (@blackbelt2025)


    11 years, 10 months ago

    I am working on the website for a company at which I work. I am trying to create a local copy of the website to play around with. I installed XAMPP (on Windows 7) following the tutorial on lifeinthegrid.com, and I activated the Duplicator plugin on our wp-admin. I created the package and installer, and downloaded them to C:/xampp/htdocs/website. Using Chrome, I ran the installer, and everything worked fine, no errors. However, when I try to visit the local site (using the wp-admin link in the top left), all I get is an index of the files in the folder, rather than the website. I made sure XAMPP was set up correctly, and I followed the Duplicator tutorial from lifeinthegrid.com. I am good with software programming (C/C++, Java, etc.), but network and web stuff is all new to me. What do I need to change?

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/duplicator/

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  • Hey BlackBelt2025,

    It sounds like you may not have Apache setup to process the php index.php file. Check out this article it should help…

    https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DirectoryListings

    Cheers~

    Thread Starter BlackBelt2025

    (@blackbelt2025)

    Thanks for your help. Apache was set up correctly. The issue was that there was no index.php file created. Once I copied the index.php file from my local WordPress folder, everything worked beautifully.

    I’m not sure if this is a bug in the installer, or due to my lack of experience.

    Either way, a suggestion would be to create a video tutorial that shows how to use the Duplicator with XAMPP. Since you have videos on how to use these things separately, a video on how to integrate these should not be too difficult.

    Anyway, excellent plugin!

    Hey BlackBelt,

    Thanks for the feedback! I’ll add that to one of my todo tasks. Glad you got things going!

    Cheer~

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