I got Error 500

  • Resolved Lardom

    (@lardom)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    I cannot get WP and WAMP to work together on my PC. I’ve tried for the past several days without success. Today I dropped images and random HTML pages into the WAMP ‘www’ folder and got mixed results. In contrast none of the WP files would display.
    I’m lost and discouraged. I discovered I only had to type localhost which displayed a directory.
    As an animator I’d love to practice with WordPress before I publish anything. Is there any way to do a clean reinstallation?

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  • LyleChamney

    (@lylechamney)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Did you actually ‘install’ WP?

    You have to:

    – create a new, empty database using phpMyAdmin from the WAMP control panel
    – within the WAMP www folder should be the extracted wordpress folder with all the files and folders for the WP site
    – both Apache and MySQL servers need to be running; the W WAMP icon in the system tray must be ‘green’
    – you begin the WP installation process by entering this in your browser:

    http://localhost/wordpress

    When you get to the database page, you enter this:

    — database name: wordpress (or whatever you named it, but it should have no spaces)
    — database user: root
    — database password: <empty> do not enter ANYTHING in here
    — host name: localhost (or 127.0.0.1)
    — table prefix: wp_ <leave as-is>

    Try that 🙂

    Thread Starter Lardom

    (@lardom)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    LyleChamney, thank you for your reply.
    When I typed “http://localhost/wordpress” I got an error. I followed your advice and changed the username to “root” and deleted the password using notepad++.
    Hello world! To complete the installation it said I had to “clear” the tables. I then added the username and password back with no problem.
    YouTube is not the first place I should’ve checked.
    Wordpress and WAMP are SO different from GUI-type applications. I’ll need to stay involved with this forum. Thanks again.

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