haggardns

Yes, I dumped the htaccess file into the Site1 and now causing readme.html to give 500 error.

I will close this topic resolved and learn apache independently ??

thanks

Okay I have stripped it down.

c:\wamp\www\trusteddev\ maps to https://localhost/trusteddev

I dumped the readme.html file into the root of the site but I still get a 500 internal error.

I created a folder called site1 and dumped in the readme.html and I can open it fine via https://localhost/site1/readme.html however it does not have the nice formatting (the word press modules must spiffy it up).

The original WordPress site download into the www\ root works fine. It must have something to do with coming off the hosted site.

Since I am only trying to view readme.html (baby steps) I think it has to do with : httpd.conf? or .htaccess files?

The convoluted path is because the live site came from a hosted service with multi-tenancy I suppose. I don’t want to strip away the convoluted structure and leave it as is, as I might accidentally break a lot of custom code and external SAAS services being used.

I am new to WordPress ??

I will strip it down as you advise and put it all into a new directory and see how it goes.

thanks

Chris