i renamed the index.html to old_index.html and it still doing the same thing but fortunately i almost figured it out when i go to http://localhost/administrator it takes me to control panel of joomla when i type in now http://localhost/index it takes me to the web bage that i am building but unfortunetly on every link that i click it takes me back to http://localhost which is the default page i suppose and whenever i try to click on something in the website it takes me there and just says "its working ! " the freakin apache is using the localhost to tell me that its working.... its driving me crazy :d

Try temporarily removing any .html files (index) from the root directory. See what happens.

also, try to type this in:

http://localhost/index.php

What does that get you?

Also, I haven't seen any response from you about what your .htaccess file looks like. Joomla will install an example file titled 'htaccess.txt'.. If you have NO file called .htaccess in your root directory, try copying the example provided by joomla---

cp htaccess.txt .htaccess

di11rod

changed the /var/www/htaccess.txt to /var/www/.htaccess and it worked now localhost resolves at the joomla website that im building up thank u all for that u've been very helpful

now if anyone can tell me why the joomla is not displaying the whole template before i apply the template to the joomla it shows a lot of menus and all that but when i choose it from the template menager it shows up just 1 link in the menu and just one article that i've manually added and i want to make changes to the template that i pick but its showing just a small part of that template not the whole one