wp-admin not found

  • Newbie here — just installed WordPress 2.0 to my localhost and tried to log in. I get this msg: File “C:\…\wordpress\wp-admin\” not found

    The …\wordpress\wp-admin folder is certainly right there. Why can’t WordPress find it?

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  • Have you set up your web browser so it accepts index.php as one of the default web pages (like index.htm, index.html, default.htm and so on)…

    Thread Starter noelzia

    (@noelzia)

    Yes, I checked and it does accept index.php as the default page.

    Well, then you are stuck in the same way as I am right now. I believe the problem is NOT …\wordpress\wp-admin but the redirection from the login page that is (probably) not complete. If it makes you feel better, I could enter the URL of wp-admin manually and got it to work, to some extent.

    Right now I have two “suspects” in this matter:
    – the web server (I do NOT use Apache)
    – the PHP version and/or php.ini, I have seen before that WP did not work with PHP5 in the past…

    Anyway, I doubt you will ever get any reply here. I tried to get somebody to send me an output from phpinfo() from a working WP-installation. Not a single answer up to now…

    My conclusion:
    – either nobody here can get WP to work in any environment
    OR
    – we are just on our own.

    I was having trouble getting index.php recognized (Solaris, Apache), so I added the following index.html file to both my wordpress main directory and wp-admin:

    <html>
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; URL=./index.php”>
    </head>
    </html>

    Theoretically I shouldn’t “need” this file, but I couldn’t get WordPress to work without it.

    Good luck.

    Geri

    noelzia’s error message refers to the wp-admin on his local ‘c’ drive – it should be your copy on your remote server you should be pointing to.

    Are you running IIS?

    Gerri, did you ever try modifying the apache httpd.conf file to accept it?

    Specifically:

    DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php

    Thread Starter noelzia

    (@noelzia)

    I am trying to run wp on my localhost via my php editor (PhpEd), which includes built-in php and mysql. So that’s why it’s looking for wp-admin on my C: drive. And it is, in fact, on my C: drive, right where it should be. Perhaps I just can’t run wp in this environment, although I have no trouble with other php scripts.

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