The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server

also did a sql export to my local computer.

Did you do a search and replace on the database to change all of the live domain name references to your localhost address ( localhost, internal ip – whatever you used to install wordpress on your local machine) before importing to the local installation?

Yes, I did change all live domain references to the localhost address before the import.

Could it be a permalink issue? Example: Live server setup -vs- local development server setup – is mod_rewrite enabled and working on your local machine, and is “AllowOverride All” configured for the local site host container (or globally configured in httpd.conf) to make sure your server will obey any rewrite rules that might be in the .htaccess file you transferred from the live server?

I think you might be right. Would you kindly tell me the steps I should take to address these this. I don’t know exactly where to start or what to do. Thanks in advance.

If it’s a newer debian OS, it might be as easy as opening a terminal and running:

sudo -i

a2enmod rewrite

Then you need to edit the default site.

Open this with your favorite editor:

/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default

Find this..

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all

and change it to…

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all

and restart the server..

service apache2 restart

If you use a different OS and you can edit httpd.conf directly, open httpd.conf and find this:

# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be “All”, “None”, or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit

AllowOverride None

and change it to…

AllowOverride All

…and restart the server. I think that should usually get mod_rewrite working in either case.

Hello, i am new in web maintaining.. i am trying to login into my admin/dashboard (with all my menu, pligin, pages, post library) page, but giving me an error “Not Found The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.”
The godaddy is host (and i have back up .rar file).. i need help and my website now looks weird too.. i searche in forum, but i need detailed help (step By step) if is there hope.. PLEASE HELP