Problem with Wordpress install

gibson79 · 09-09-2009, 04:36 PM

Hi all,

I have been attempting to get wordpress running on Slack 13.

Here's what I've done so far.

Unzipped the package to /var/www/htdocs
Set up a mysql database for wordpress.
Edited the wp-config.php file with my database info.

I than ran through the install for wordpress, and it seems to go OK. I can log into wordpress and see the dashboard, and can add posts. I checked the database and it was populated with data.

However when I try to view the site all it returns is a directory listing of http://localhost/wordpress.

Any ideas what's wrong?

Thanks.

bassmadrigal · 09-09-2009, 04:41 PM

Have you added index.php to the directory index in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf?

Code:

#
# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
# is requested.
#
<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
</IfModule>

Basically whatever file is in here apache will try to check for any of these file names in order if just a directory is given.

If you try http://localhost/wordpress/index.php it should load up without making those changes in your conf file. If it works, then just add the index.php to that section in the conf, if it doesn't work then there is another underlying problem.

gibson79 · 09-09-2009, 04:57 PM

Thanks bassmadrigal,

I had actually tried to access the site directly with http://localhost/wordpress/index.php as well but that didn't work either.

Putting index.php in the directory index did work though

Thanks for the help!