cloned xampp Wordpress site doesn't show posts

[rickarooni]

I've made a local copy of a live WP site with XAMPP and I've noticed my post pages get routed to a XAMPP page titled, "welcome to XAMPP for Windows."
I've looked at other posts and I don't think it's my .htaccess file permissions, as I've changed them to full permissions.
Any help greatly appreciated.

[Pullo]

Where do the WordPress files live on your hard drive?
They should be somewhere below C:/xampp/htdocs (presuming a Windows install)
The page you are seeing is the default Xampp landing page and is reached via 'http://localhost/'
You'll need to type 'http://localhost/path_to_the_root_folder_of_your_wordpress_install_relative_to_xamps_htdocs_folder' in to the address bar.
For example, for me this is 'http://localhost/wordpress/' (imaginatively enough).

[rickarooni]

I don't want to have to modify the URL for every page I want to see, so how do I set the path? Do I set the root directory in httpd.conf or something? I'll look at that. So I just did that. It's around line 183. "DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/" and I appended the subdirectory at the end of the path. But there must be something else I need to do because that didn't fix it. I cleared Chrome's cache as well. Am I on the right track?

[Pullo]

Let's just see if we can find WP first.
What happens when you type in 'http://localhost/' followed by the path to your WordPress root directory, relative to the htdocs folder?

I'm not trying to be funny, I just want to be sure that WP is running, then we can look at how you would rather have things.

[rickarooni]

I also tried changing the wp_cofig.php file where it sets the WP_HOME and WP_SITEUDRL and that didn't work either. Should I be using a trailing slash on both of them?

[Pullo]

Dude,
which folder on your hard drive contains your wordpress files?

[rickarooni]

I get to the site by typing in that URL.This is one of those "one-page" sites, so I see a lot of content. But when a link goes to another page for a post, that's when I get to the default xampp page. Thanks for your help.

[Pullo]

Ok, one last try. I think we're getting our wires crossed.
My wordpress install is located at C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress.
This means I can access it via http://localhost/wordpress/ (with trailing slash)

Where is yours located?

[rickarooni]

path is c:/xampp/htdocs/[folder that contains WP files]
Sorry,I think we were responding to each other's posts at the same time.

[Pullo]

Ok, and what happens if you enter http://localhost/name-of-folder-that-contains-WP-files/ ?

[rickarooni]

I get to the home page of my site with seemingly all the content there. It's only when I have to go to another page (like a post) that I get the xampp screen.

[Pullo]

Ahh, ok, now I understand.
Sorry.

Can you access your WP dashboard via http://localhost/WP-folder/wp-admin/ ?

[rickarooni]

yes.

[Pullo]

Cool.
Go to Dashboard -> Settings -> General and check that the WordPress Address URL is set to http://localhost/WP-folder
Does that help?

[rickarooni]

yes, it's correct there, but no trailing slash. It's also grayed out so I can't edit it directly there.

[Pullo]

Yeah, the trailing slash isn't important, but it shouldn't be grayed out.
What does the Site Address say?
Which version of WP are you running?

[rickarooni]

WP 3.4.2 is the version. site address same as WP address.

[Pullo]

That's weird then.
What's the .htaccess file in your WP root folder saying?
Could you post the contents of that file?

[rickarooni]

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

[Pullo]

Change this:
RewriteBase /

into:
RewriteBase /your-wordpress-folder/

Does that work?

[Pullo]

Sorry, I missed a line.
The whole code block should be:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /your-wordpress-folder/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /your-wordpress-folder/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

[rickarooni]

Worked!

[rickarooni]

Thank you, sir!

[Pullo]

You're welcome.
Happy to help