localhost:8888/url returning 404 Not Found

  • Hi

    I have been using MAMP PRO for the past 2 years developing sites using WordPress as my platform. Have never had a problem until this weekend when I entered the url in my browser to access front and backend of site.

    I got the following:
    Not Found
    The requested URL /mysite was not found on this server.

    Then I tried other sites I’ve been working on and have had no problem accessing them before until now.

    To access my sites I usually enter:
    localhost:8888/mysite – for front end and
    localhost:8888/mysite/wp-admin – to login to back end.

    If anyone can give me any pointers as to what may have changed I’d be grateful.

    Regards
    Karen

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  • Check you apache error logs. This might give some clue to what is happening

    try this – Delete .htaccess from wordpress root directory.

    Thread Starter karikirch

    (@karikirch)

    Hi Gabriel

    Well, have had a look and there are certainly a lot of errors, which don’t really mean much to me at all :((

    The one that I find quite confusing is:
    [Mon Mar 25 14:34:16 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/petmemorials.co.za/worksurfacetechnologies.co.za, referer: https://worksurfacetechnologies.co.za:8888/

    Is there anyone you know who would be able to interpret my log file for me. Just confused to what has suddenly changed.

    Regards
    Karen

    You can delete the log entries and start fresh. Looks like you have conflicting vhost entires . Did you make changes to http.config file or to you host file? What OS are you on?

    Thread Starter karikirch

    (@karikirch)

    Not that I can recall. Wouldn’t know how to change http.config file or host file. All I remember doing was removing all files related to the one site and started from scratch. ie copied over the latest wordpress files to a new folder htdocs, and went through my normal process in MAMP setting up database and configuring wp-config.php… after that nothing worked.

    Using OSX version 10.6.8.

    Thanks for your time.

    I’m not a Mac user. But do you have to use a tilday and your name after local host:8888 ?

    Example: https://localhost:8080/~gabriel/mysite

    Just a thought!

    Try creating a new site with fresh install of everything in new folder with fresh wp file. No copies

    Thread Starter karikirch

    (@karikirch)

    No I don’t have to use a tilday… just localhost:8888/mysite

    Right I’ll try again although when I said I copied files – I had downloaded fresh wordpress 3.5.1, unzipped folder and copied and pasted these new files into my htdocs folder…

    I will try again… and let you know. The problem is I cannot figure out why this would have affected my other sites on localhost.

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