[PLUG] Problems running WordPress on http://localhost/ - was {Re: Network server and client simultaneously ...}

[Richard Owlett]

On 03/29/2017 10:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 03/29/2017 09:46 AM, Larry Brigman wrote:
>> Those package resources are typical of a remote hosted system and ftp
>> is how you would connect to the remote system.
>> In this case, the book and other instructions just didn't allow for
>> someone that had full console access to the server running wordpress.
>> Pull the modules down and then follow the instructions after the
>> packages are ftp'ed onto the system.
>
> That has me going in a productive direction.
> I did a DuckDuckGo search for "install theme localhost linux
> site:wordpress.org" (w/o quotes) to find out what to do with it after
> downloading. I was not unique. It appears there may be more learning
> experiences ahead ;)
> Thank you.
>
>

I could have been more complete, it was "one of *THOSE* days"!

One of the links 
{https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-installing-themes/} 
suggests that a modification to a configuration file addresses my situation.

Another {https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress} covers using 
cPane, phpMyAdmin or MySQL Client with localhost.

This morning I found "Localhost Installs Forum" 
{https://wordpress.org/support/forum/localhost-installs/} which has over 
300 posts.

I have a cornucopia of reading ;)