Using WAMP to test locally

Hi Travis,

all I read is code for my site (If directions aren’t clear enough I’ll elaborate).

That sounds like WAMP isn’t set up to process PHP. You’re saying that this is something that changed after restore? In that case, it sounds like WAMP is set up with its PHP configuration in a local configuration file that is part of the website(.htaccess or php.ini). That’s not a good idea, because that gets replaced upon restoring a different website backup (as in this case).

I’ve not used WAMP, so don’t know how to configure it to put the PHP configuration globally, instead of locally (and a quick Google didn’t enlighten me). As a work-around, you could avoid restoring WordPress core (which is only very rarely needed), and this will then not touch the root directory in which WAMP is apparently storing its configuration files. If you set up a fresh WAMP WordPress site, and look at .htaccess and php.ini (both may not exist), and see what’s in there, that’ll also show what lines have been removed and need adding back to re-activate PHP (though, it’d be better ultimately, as I say, not to have PHP activation stored as part of the website like that).

David