Logged In, but don’t see my WP dashboard anymore

  • Resolved joelh

    (@joelh127)


    6 years, 9 months ago

    I’m a novice to WordPress, but technical enough to not get “completely” lost…at least not so far.
    My issue: I downloaded WP and for a few days working on it from a localhost environment. I had some issues with my Dell PC and needed to reinstall Xampp. I was also told I should consider using an FTP, which I choose and downloaded Filezilla Client (seem to be installed just fine). While I do not yet own my domain/have a hosting provider, my intent was to try it out and to learn first, then invest/grow fast.
    All that said, whenever I log in to WordPress, I can’t seem to see the Dashboard anymore. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling a few times, adjusted the posts via the Xampp Control Panel and all but Filezilla (Port 21 in use by “C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k ftpsvc”!) works.

    I understand there may be multiple issues here, but do I need to clean my PC and start over? ;o((
    Cheers.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Yes you may have multiple issues, some of which are about your apache2 / mySQL / local hosting environment and not strictly bout WordPress.

    You do not need Filezilla and or FTP to access the files on your own computer, ignore that advice and any other advice from the same source is suspect, they may know less than you do.

    Is your apache2 webserver running ? To test this see if you can display the readme.html file which comes with WordPress, so use your browser to an URL like:
    https://localhost/readme.html or something similar, you may have added a directory name in your setup. If it displays then your webserver is running, if it is not then you need support from someone with XAMPP experience.

    Did your readme.html file display ?

    Thread Starter joelh

    (@joelh127)

    Thanks for your prompt response, Ross.

    To your recommendation, yes the Readme file does display. But, it’s more like C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress/readme.html, in the event that matters.

    Thread Starter joelh

    (@joelh127)

    In anticipation of your response and rather than delaying the inevitable, I’ve gone ahead and created a Bluehost account (with my new domain) and attempting to install WordPress at that level. Does this then render this effort to resolve this issue unnecessary?

    But, it’s more like C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress/readme.html, in the event that matters.

    YES, it does matter.
    Please try:
    https://localhost/wordpress/readme.html or
    https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/readme.html or similar.
    The difference is that I want the apache2 webserver involved, that is the test, hence why you need the http.

    By all means go ahead and do your installation and development at Bluehost, you could bypass the need for your XAMPP localhost setup this way, but some things are easier if you can do them on localhost, especially if you use the “virtualhost” technique.

    Thread Starter joelh

    (@joelh127)

    hmmm…

    Neither of those options work and returned “this site can’t be reached” page.

    Neither of those options work and returned “this site can’t be reached” page.

    Then your webserver is probably not running.
    Just to run this to ground, what did you set into the “site address” and “WordPress address” of your settings ? This would help sorting out where the webserver was supposed to fetch the website from.

    This is important because while your browser can display HTML or JPG etc FILES, it is not able to do anything with “.php” files, they need the webserver to interpret them, connect to databases etc.

    Thread Starter joelh

    (@joelh127)

    I didn’t set anything and left it blank. I was told I could bypass that and do it post setup. Am I assuming that was not accurate?

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by joelh.

    I suggest that you delete the present localhost WordPress setup and database and start again using just one set of instructions, presumably XAMPP has such a document.
    Of course now that you have a hosted website you could bypass this step for quite a while. In this case I suggest that you setup a second WordPress site to experiment with using a subdomain, something like “trial.<yourdomain>” or “dev.<yourdomain>”, you can even password protect it so as to keep your experiments off google.

    Thread Starter joelh

    (@joelh127)

    Ross,

    Again, many THANKS for your insight/help, as I was finally able to able to resolve this issue. Many thanks!!!

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