Installing Wordpress and XAMPP

[Steve369]

Hello Friend.

I am new to both Wordpress and XAMPP. My goal is to install Wordpress locally as a testing server.

I followed the all the instructions closely on the following site, nevertheless there are two things that didn't happen:

http://tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

A) I noticed that the file index for php doesn't appear in windows explorer. In other words when I co to edit the wp-config-sample.php, if I just click on it windows will ask me which program and PHP doesn't show up on the list. I did check the status via XAMPP control and it says that php is indeed running. Anyway my work around was to just edit the file via notepad, then I saved it according to the instructions.

B) The next problem I ran into was that when I try to install wordpress I received an error that the install file could not be found. The instructions say to do the following:

In your browser, go to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php and everything from there should run smoothly !


I checked the XAMPP/htdocs/wordpress folder and the file is there, nevertheless I keep getting an error when I try to install.

Please help if you can.

[Nobbie]

that the install file could not be found

I will bet a billion dollars, that you might have received any error messages, but definately NOT an error "the install file could not be found".