Hi jd42,

What version of concrete5 are you using?

I'm using 5.7.3.1.

Just to double check, all the WAMP services are running?

Yeah, it appears so.

If you type "localhost" into your address bar, what do you see?

This screen.

First guess, check the .htaccess file in your project directory.

Try sticking a phpinfo.php in there:


What shows up if you try this URL? http://localhost/test/phpinfo.php...

Thank you!

I added this document and that subdomain takes me to the attached page.

As I thought, it must somehow be a problem with the way I put the concrete files in the project folder.

What is the correct way to put them in?

You didn't respond to if you had a .htaccess file in your test directory...

@jd42

If you are open to using XAMPP instead of WAMP. I can write up a tutorial on how to install and configure it, including how to install concrete5 5.7.

Thank you very much for the offer!

It seems like this problem should have a simple solution. I hate to go through a whole other process just to have the same problem pop back up.

So before I do that, are there any other simple errors that could've caused this?

For instance, my project name originally was two words with a space inbetween, and when I clicked on it absolutely nothing would happen. Once I took away the space it tried to load the site, but I received the "server not found" error. I just tried it again and it returned a blank page with an empty red rectangle at the top.

Could there be a problem with the way I put the Concrete5 folder in the project directory?

I extracted the folder, and pasted the extracted folder with all of it's contents into the project directory.

I can't think of anything else...Maybe I'll try redownloading concrete and putting it back in the project folder.

If you've no other ideas though, I'll definitely look into XAMPP.


Thanks!

If your "project" (read directory name) had a space in it you are asking for trouble.

If you want to try your current setup again (which appears fine from the phpinfo() - delete your database and install c5 fresh again into your new directory.

Spaces in directories or URLs are evil :-P

Apologies, my mind somehow skipped over that bit.

Upon further inspection it would seem that NO, I don't have an htaccess file in my projects directory.

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Thanks for the recommendations,I'll look into those as well.


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Ah. First, if you would, please tell me more about this illusive "htaccess" monster. After this fierce beast has been caught and skinned, I will consider restringing my WAMPing hunting bow.

.htaccess (dot ht access) can control how the Apache server works in a given directory, it is for instance used when you enable Pretty URLs in concrete5.

It can also make weird things happen if it not strictly written (especially ReWrite rules), which theoretically could cause a Server not found error message.

Ok, thanks.



So I deleted the directory for my project, created a new one, added the concrete files, and I'm still getting the server not found message.

I hate to leave this unsolved, but perhaps its time to check out one of those other local servers...

So you can't even get to the concrete5 install screen?

http://localhost/your_dir/phpinfo.php... still works (after creating one there)?

Correct on both accounts!

However, I am happy to report that I have downloaded Uniform and successfully installed Concrete5.

Hazah!

Thank you both for the help!

Excellent news!

If you wouldn't mind adding [SOLVED] to your original post and picking a best answer that would be great.

I do like Uniform Server (which I used reviewing Remo's concrete5 Beginner's Guide [2nd Ed], but he was using a Bitnami stack just as successfully.

I actually have several different versions of Uniform running in different directories with different versions of PHP/MySQL and concrete5. Super easy to switch between them.

Its really helpful.
Thanks