WordPress MU

I installed xampp with mu I got everything running use this instructions I found but I'm stuck on number 8.. please help and sorry for the hassle

1. Download XAMPP you can download XAMMP or light version doesn’t matter.
2. Install in your C drive You can skip the next few steps if you want if you’re not installing WPMU
a. C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\host change localhost to localhost.enter_a_name
b. Go To apache\conf\httpd.conf
c. Change
#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
to
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
Continue with WP/WPMU install.
3. Download wordpress or wordpress-mu extract the files into your c:\xampp\htdocs dir.
4. Now run C:\xampp\xampp-control.exe and click on start button for apache and mysql.
5. Open your web browers and enter in the url: http://localhost/ or http://localhost.enter_a_name if did steps a, b, and c.
6. Select a language and click on phpMyAdmin.
7. In the Create new database fields enter wordpress and select utf8_unicode_ci and hit the create button.
8. Change url to http://localhost /your_word_press_folder/ or http://localhost.enter_a_name/your_word_press_folder/ in the Database section enter the following
Database Name:wordpress
User Name: root
Password: erase whatever is there and leave blank
Database Host: Leave it as “local host”
9. Fill in your Site Details and press Submit and your done!

Did you alreayd do step 2?

yep I myphpadmin working

I follow all steps till no. 8 does wpmu have a login screen when it install fully

What's your localhost address? Go to that in your browser. Follow the instructions.

You may consider to see this post :

http://www.hostingformula.info/step-by-step-install-wordpress-multi-user-in-localhost-make-permalink-work/

hi!

I have a 2.6.5 WPMU with buddypress and bbpress, and Im trying to test upgrading on a local site first. I have followed all the instruction including the one provided by alamsters link. I now have a working local site at http://localhost.localdomain/ except that i cant get the local subdomain blogs to work. :(
any step i'm missing?

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also, tried to transfer a live site locally but the links all go out to the online site. is there an easier way of changing all the links than manually editing the files? if i do change the links, will it work?

thanks for your help.

Local subdomains might be a problem. I think you'll need to manually add them into the hosts file to get it working.

Yep, you do.

great! that was the step i'm missing.should be added on the number 2 step. :)

i have 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain, added another line of 127.0.0.1 test.localhost.localdomain and it worked.

whew. this is really fun.

Once I hit submit, I get a Redirect Loop error in the browser.

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

HELP!

I am trying to install mu wordpress on the local machine running wamp. After entering the database details I get the loop redirect error. I have been looking through the posts and have got nothing that can solve my problem.

Anybody who could advise?

you need something like localhost.something.