WordPress MU

Hi,

I'm installing WP-MU localy (with XAMPP for Windows) to test it.

I can log into the administrative panel (http://localhost/wpmu/main/wp-admin/link-manager.php) and administer wordpress without problems. Once I try to access the actual blog by clicking on "view site" (located at (http://localhost/wpmu/main/) all that is visible is the directory listing with only one folder (wp-admin) that will obviously redirect me to the admin panels.

I've tried changing the permissions on the files, but nothing seems to help.

Thanks

I, too, am having problems getting WPMU to run on my local installation of xampp. I believe it is a problem with the configuration of the mod_rewrite Apache module.

I'm sure the RewriteRules in WPMU's .htaccess files are correct (why would they be packaged if they weren't?), though I can't follow the complexity of the regular expressions. Could someone double-check that they're correct? The RewriteEngine is switched to on per the .htaccess in the WPMU root install directory.

However, the installation script says that mod_rewrite is disabled. Maybe seeing an installation error screenshot will help someone else. Did you also get this error, chantal?

Ditch the stable version! Take a walk on the wild side and download the latest nightly build. This solves the mod_rewrite problem that we were experiencing.

Could it be that in your Apache httpd.conf you haven't specified that index.php is a valid default for directories?

...
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php
</IfModule>
...

Thanks for the suggestion, Vincent, but index.php is a default directory index name in httpd.conf with the base XAMPP installation.