Jack

@vtxyzzy(I have no idea what that symbol is??:-)) Thanks,
Would you know how to make my home page show an abbreviated view of the post where you click to see the rest? Thanks again. Jack
P.S. Have you ever tried any of the Plugins that were recommended?

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Wow it linked my whole darn post so its not working right here either. Or something else is going on. When you click the link editor button above shouldn’t that just put a link in this post not make the whole post a link?

Hi again @noponies – I use LAMP with Ubuntu 11.10. Sorry I didn’t say that earlier. I open a browser and type “localhost/wordpress” and it goes to my www folder, which I modified in Apache to run from my Home folder. And the whole first page loads, just like on my live site but none of the links work ie: comments, posts, catagories etc.

Hi GovPatel – Ok…I’m really new. Could you expand on that a little. Thanks

@noponies: Thank you for all your help and response. Ok I got the main index.php page to post on Apache2:localhost. But none of the catagory, or page links work. Can you tell me what else I need to fix. I’m assuming I have to go into the WordPress files in my www folder now and replace…?

This really looks daunting. There must be hundreds of incidences of code pertaining to my url including email addresses etc.Not all have to be changed and not all the same way. Does Apache require the “www.”? I mean do you guys actually run 2 copies of your website: one “on site” and one on the developmental computer. Don’t you have to change your database every time you make a mod to your development program and then upload to your site? Is there some document in here that speaks directly to running 2 copies of your site? One on site and one locally?

Wow… thanks you guys. I appreciate when someone takes the time to help us new guys.

What I’d like to do is have my main blogsite on my server and within that site have a fully functional other blogsite if possible. Thanks

…from the wordpress site set up in the root directory to the wordpress/secondsite directory. See I told you it was probably a dumb question.

@josh – And then I can link to the wordpress/secondsite from the install in the root directory? Probably a dumb question but do you have any sample sites or forums on the subject telling how?

Thanks Sage: that one by Marvin looks like what I’m looking for. The ones that run on PhP look kinda scary as I’m not yet proficient with PhP. Have you tried the one from Marvin yet or has anyone else??