lynleyoram

d’oh! Sorry that was down to me being an idiot. Upon reviewing the instructions I realised I’d copied the ‘contents’ of the wordpress folder, not the actual folder itself! I’ve done that now and it is working just fine. Thanks!

thanks yeleek. Darn it. It wasn’t ticked. I was hoping that might be why the instructions didn’t work for me – I followed them to the letter but just got Object Not Found when I got to the last step (going to https://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php in my browser).

The only difference between the description on the website and what I came across as I was following the instructions is that the website says to go to My Computer > Main drive > Xampplite > htdocs

but on my computer that folder was called Xampp not Xampplite.

Thanks MichaelH but that was the page I started with and was utterly stumped by (and what made me come here!).

Yeleek, thank you so much for taking the time to post this. This site seems to be what I’m looking for. I have XP Pro. Don’t suppose you know how to ‘stop IIS’?