Not able to properly navigate files after Install

  • I setup wordpress on a local windows machine.

    I was able to successful install (i think) because i can login to my wordpress using the admin account and password that was generated when i ran the install.php script.

    I installed wordpress with all the files in a folder named “techblog” under the apache->htdocs directory.

    For some reason when i goto https://localhost/techblog i get am able to get a listing of all that are in the “techblog” directory.

    now when i goto https://localhost/techblog/index.php i am able to view the main page, but when i try to click on certain links i have to on the page i am returned to the root director above listing all the files in the “techblog” directory.

    Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

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  • This sounds like your Apache web server doesn’t “know” about “index.php” files.

    To fix this, find the httpd.conf file in your Apache installation and open it in notepad or another true text editor. The httpd.conf file contains a bunch of configuration settings for your web server.

    Look for the following code:

    <IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>
    • After the “index.html,” add a space and “index.php”
    • Save the file.
    • Then restart the Apache service.

    This should fix your first issue and hopefully the second one as well.

    Thread Starter villumanati

    (@villumanati)

    Thanks. This solved the problem.

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