XAMPP is installed and I have Apache and MySQL working. I have copied the WordPress files into a folder under htdocs. I have created a database for WordPress in MySQL. I am running on Windows 11 Pro.
Any ideas why this is not working?
I can open the phpadmin webpage with no problems. When I try to open the WordPress folder I get the error message:
404 Not Found.
The requested URL was not found on this server.
Apache/2.4.56 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.1.1t PHP/8.2.4 Server at localhost Port 9090
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Answers
Well, I think you have renamed the file while extracting (from zip file) and because of that the server is unable to identify it. So delete the extracted WordPress file and then re-extract it without changing the name. After that follow the regular procedure to paste it in htdocs file. It will work!
I would check that your folder under htdocs has the WP files extracted into it and that its not in a further subfolder. so it should be ‘htdocs/wpsite/’ and in wpsite you should see the wp-config.php file, among others. if you don’t see the wp-config.php in the root of that folder, look for it, note the location then got to localhost/wpsite/actualfolder and see if it loads. If it still doesn’t load make sure that xampp is running and that all the relevant options are enabled, apache etc. If it still refuses then check that your wp-config file is setup correctly with the appropriate database name, user, and password.