unklchuk

Thank you for the info. Decided to switch to a local development site.

I checked into the link you gave, and Flywheel sounded interesting. But given that the day was seeming long, I decided to let Mor10 from lynda.com talk me through doing a local install using Bitnami. Went well AFAIK. Time for my recliner and a non-alcohol beer. And PBS.

Thanks again. There seemed to be several. But 3 links went to gone pages. 3 required passwords. And 4 wound up back at the original “Installing WordPress Locally Using MAMP” article. I may have missed something (there were 100+ links), but I didn’t find anything. But that’s OK.

I’m going to take a “break” of sorts by taking the “WordPress 3” training at lynda.com. Might get lucky there. If not, I’ll forget the Local Server and install a copy of the live site on another server I have as of this afternoon.

The age of the doc and the relative scarcity whispers to me that Local Server installs are NOT all that common. Perhaps I wandered off the main road.

As someone said, thanks again.

Well, forgive me, but I am more than a little discouraged. Someone has told me that if I get the success screens, and if the Dashboard shows the whole site, and if the Dashboard functions normally (EXCEPT for Page View and other previewing) that the installation is a success.

Something else is causing my problem, they said. Using that article to go back and redo the installation, without a clue what I might need to pay particular attention to, seems like a couple hours of work with a 5% chance of helping. An exercise in mounting frustration.

I went to “Installing_WordPress_Locally.” I searched for Page View, view, etc. to see if my problem was mentioned. See if there were instructions on setting up Page View. Nothing.

If this was the only hurdle I would face in learning WordPress, it would be easy to grin and bear whatever it took. 4 or more complete installs? No problem. (I’ve done 2.) But once this problem is solved, if solved it is, there surely will be others. And if the help in this forum is just to be sent back to the beginning armed with no new knowledge, then this 71-year-old mind is not up to the challenge.

Thank you for the help you offered. I regret that I cannot make better use of it.