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Have read of this codex: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/WordPress_Installation_Techniques
Also, note sevaral useful links at the bottom of the above referenced codex
Did you install WordPress at http://localhost/laetestsite or at http://localhost ? From your description of the problem, it isn’t pretty clear what is the install location of WordPress. If your WordPress installation file structure is not something similar to:
htdocs/laetestsite/wp-content
It means you didn’t install WordPress in the ‘laetestsite’ directory, hence the 404 (Not Found) error. It simply means the folder that the server tried to locate doesn’t exist. It doesn’t say anything about database.
If you go in detail about your Windows 7 server setup (e.g. server type — if it’s Apache or IIS, etc), I may be in a better position to help you.
Thanks so much for taking the time to reply and sorry not to have included enough info. I am using Apache and my files are in subdirecties of XAMPP which is in my user directory.
The info I was using said to put the wordpress folder in the htdocs directory so this is at xampp>htdocs>wordpress
I manually edited the wp-config-sample.php file and saved as wp-config.php as the install files would not run in my browser.
the htdocs directory doesn’t have a directory laetestsite – the only place this appears to have been created during setup is in the mysql>data folder.
Sorry to be dim about it and once again thanks so much for taking the time to help.
Have fumbled my way through by trial and error and worked out where i was going wrong.
Thanks for all the help – no doubt I will be back soon with another crisis!
It’s my pleasure! From the directory structure of xampp, the location of the WordPress should be at http://localhost/wordpress but I’m glad you already found the solution.
Have a great day!
