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Jan…
Please give me 1 minute…yes you are correct though. 3 year old…back in a few

Jan,
Yes, you would be starting from scratch. Except it sounds like your really right there, I mean I think it’s an address issue. If your “blog” is in your wordpress directory and you didn’t change anything you should be able to see your site. Is WP installed in your htdocs directory? “C://program files/server/htdocs/wordpress”? It doesn’t have to be in program files, it could be at root. The important thing is for WP to be in htdocs. You can change the blog location later if you want, what you want to do now though is just confirm that you can see it from both sides, lan/wan. I had the same issue as you describe and it was the address being wrong under options. If you do the xampp install plan on about 1/2 a day. If you’re somewhat familar with the software maybe an hour…I’m a noob with WP but correcting the address under options corrected my issue, and it was the very same problem you describe. Try putting the address in again, “https://jan.your.address.com/wordpress”
and make sure to hit update (I know you probably have done this 10 times now.)
BTW, I’ll also be trying to do the gallery2 plugin…

I wish I could be of more help – but I can say this – I’ve used Gallery 2 several times (implementing it on a site right now, actually) and it’s pretty easy. I think your scary/hard part is getting this current issue fixed – Gallery 2 is cake.

doodlebee,
I’m glad to hear Gallery 2 is cake, I hope I can find you when I get ready to do the install! I have WP 2.1 and I’m real reluctant at the moment to experiment with pluggins and widgets because of compatiblilty issues…I had a little problem with “simple forum”, at least when I went to uninstall the plugin. It left a tag in my page header. Maybe you could give a link to your blog so when Jan and I go to do the install we could get your assistance?
edit…I just noticed your nick is a link, cool beans! You might just see Jan and Arborbarber posting on your site! :}

Doodlebee,
Thanks for your help so far. Except for the url bit I’ve been going on about, I quite agree that 2.1 is cake and very nice (until you get into the more ccomplex issues like embedding/linking Gallery2 and using plugins to pickup pictures from anywhere and drop them in WP).
I think it’s time to call this issue resolved.
Regards,
Jan

ArborHabor,
If I can be of any assistance to you, dont hesitatie to contact me on this form.
Regards,
Jan