http://localhost/ does not take me to Wordpress page

Report · Sep 04, 2011

I am working my way through Brian Wood's tutorials on using DW with Wordpress. I am on part 2 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_wordpress_pt2.html I.ve installed XAMMP using David's Powers work and it seems to be fine, I've installed Wordpress and I was in the process of setting the Theme in Wordpress. I successfully activated the Adobe Developer Connection Theme which is the one Brian is going to use in the rest of his toutorial. Then he says to type http://localhost/ into the browser to see the first page of the blog with the theme files applied. When I do that it takes me to the Welcome page for XAMMP for windows. What am I missing here?

Report · Sep 04, 2011

Is your Wordpress installation in the root of the XAMPP server or did you put it in a folder called Wordpress or something similar. You said you were able to install Wordpress so that path should be what you are looking for.

Report · Sep 04, 2011

Hi,

Thanks for trying to help. At this point I think I maybe in over my head. I have built two websites with dreamweaver but wanted to try Wordpress because I thought I could get a higher level of performance than what I can build on my own.

Brian's article said to install Wordpress in the htdocs folder, so I have it installed in XAMPP/htdocs. I guess maybe I misunderstood what he meant.

Dave