OK. I want to make a quite important note regarding the permalink usage on local environment. On a local host all your URLs will look like this: “localhost/yoursitename/?p=123” …
In certain situations the permalink rewrite rules may not work and when you are trying to enable custom permalinks you’ll get some nasty “page not found” errors.
In order to fix this problem, you’ll have to enable the WAMP rewrite module. Click the green WAMP icon on your taskbar, navigate to “Apache -> Apache modules” and scroll down to find and activate the “rewrite_module”:
And that’s it … The custom permalink structures should work immediately.
If you are still facing problems go to your WAMP installation folder and locate the “httpd.conf” file which usually can be found here:
c:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.33\conf\
Right click on the file icon, select “Open with” and choose Wordpad from the list:
Once you have opened the file, locate the following line …
#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
… and delete the pound sign (#) in front of it:
And don’t forget to save the changes :)
As you can see, is extremely easy to install WordPress on WAMP.
CONGRATS again! You have created an offline playground where you can safely try out any new idea, advice, solution etc without altering your live website.
And that's it my friends!
If you have any comments, further questions or update requests please don't hesitate to react!
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And that's my next tutorial.
Which will be published tommorow.
... something that i asked about and discussed in one of my early salad WA blog days here -- when are 'we live' on the net?! ...
.. yes, agree & quite correct, we need to have practice runs on a 'dummy site' -- that is part of learning & practice makes perfect...
... Jay mentions this occasionally in some of his trainings as well -- 'sandbox' he calls it, however, it's on a siterubix, i think and that is still 'live' isn't it? ..
... anyway, your training here is mind-boggling for me -- would you like to come over and install in it -- i work on Windows 10 and that drives me crazy! ..
... frankly, Windows XP was the best platform ever -- too bad they stopped supporting it ... so my wee rant for the day! ...
... thanks kindly for developing & sharing this training today,
... all the best, cheerio ... 😊
And of course, thanks for that star :)
Yes, the siterubix sandbox is live. Many people has a live test site, but that's not a really good idea, beacuse usually is connected to the very same hosting account, which means that things could go wrong on host level.
Just drop me an address and I'll take a flight ASAP :))
Meantime you could try the good old DIY method :(
Trust me, it's really not that complicated.
Thanks for stepping by :)
BTW I'm still [BLUSHING]
... and by the way, once we've built on our off-line WordPress -- how do we transfer it to on-line? ...
... the answer to this can come later ... just thought of it now ...
enjoy a beautiful, magical day! ... cheerio... 😊
And that's my next tutorial.
Which will be published tommorow.
Have a nice day Keisha!
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