Localhost WordPress problem

Can i still react to this topic? I hope so…

I am a recent user of WAMP and I installed Wordpress 3.5 on the localhost.
When I visit the home page I created in Wordpress, everything works fine. But when I want to navigate to another page I created (by clicking it in the menu) I get the following message:

Not Found

The requested URL /wordpresstest1/even-voorstellen/ was not found on this server.

Does anyone have a clue what I am doing wrong? Any help is much appreciated.

Hi pelgrimrat,

Welcome to the forums.

Where did you install WordPress on your hard drive?
For example, I use xampp to test locally and mine is located at C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress.

Also, could you post the contents of the .htaccess file located in your WP root folder.

Hello Pullo,

Thanks for the quick reply!!

The Worpress installation is located at
C:\wamp\www\wordpresstest1

Content of the .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpresstest1/
RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpresstest1/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Thanks for your time!

No problem!

The .htaccess file seems to be ok.
Can you access your WP dashboard? (something like http://localhost/wordpresstest1/wp-admin/ for you).
If so, go to “Settings” -> “General”
What do you see listed under “WordPress Address (URL)” and “Site Address (URL)”?

Yes, I can access the dashboard. I can also normally view the home page I created. The problem starts when I try to view the other pages.

WordPress Address (URL): http://localhost/wordpresstest1
Site Address (URL): http://localhost/wordpresstest1 (the same)

Weird. That’s all as it should be.

If you go to “Settings” -> “Permalinks” what is your permalink structure?

Try reverting it to “default” and see if that makes a difference.

If it doesn’t can you please post your new error message.

It should now be different to

Not Found
The requested URL /wordpresstest1/even-voorstellen/ was not found on this server.

That did the trick!!!
I had tried setting the permalinks to ‘custom’, bit it automatically changed back to ‘post name’.
Now I set it to ‘default’ and I can view the other pages as well!!

Thank you so much for helping me so quickly! Now I can continue with the site!

You’re welcome.
Thanks for taking the time to follow up :slight_smile: