DougieT

I think my xampp installation is set up correctly. I have been able to install wordpress to a local folder called …/htdocs/wordpresstest and point wordpresstest.com to that folder using virtual hosts, and it works as I would expect it to. I can browse posts, I can access the administration area, add posts, plugins.

The “site” / installation I’m trying to revive is in a local folder called …/htdocs/thestumbler.co.uk and pointed to by thestumbler.co.uk. I have added a basic hml called pickle.htlp file under …/htdocs/thestumbler.co.uk/ it says Hello world! and works if directly accessed by url. This proves to me that Apache can at least serve pages from this folder.

I’m going to have a closer look at file permissions across the two site folders and see what I find, but I’m wondering if database corruption could be affecting things.

Thanks. I have set up xampp for virtual hosts so I can point any url I want to any folder I want on the local machine. So I don’t think it’s that. I’ll read that link however.

• This reply was modified 1 month ago by DougieT.

Ok so I’ve made some headway by removing <?php get_sidebar(); ?> from front-page.php

I also noticed a missing bracket in my style.css

Now I have a background image which is full height but not full width. I’m assuming there will some style I can add to make the nav menu and footer semi-transparent, and that I can make the image stretch.

Thanks Dean,

That’s a whole step I was missing out, I was manually assigning images to a page called gallery before, and then inserting the shortcode. It worked but now I know why there wasn’t an obvious way of sorting.

I’ll try and remember to leave future comments on the thriveweb site.

Doug