title: Cannot access Wordpress dashboard through WAMP
body: <p>I can access the actual wordpress site via WAMP's localhost route, but I cannot log into the admin/dashboard page of the wordpress site.</p>
  
  <p>I think it is a problem with apache.</p>
  
  <p>Can anybody help me?</p>
  
  <p>here are messages from the apache error logs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Sun Nov 03 07:11:17.294107 2013] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 2700:tid 416] AH00422:   Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
  [Sun Nov 03 07:11:19.296221 2013] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 5784:tid 324] AH00364: Child: All worker threads have exited.
  [Sun Nov 03 07:11:19.328223 2013] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 2700:tid 416] AH00430: Parent: Child process 5784 exited successfully.
  [Sun Nov 03 07:11:22.842424 2013] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 5408:tid 416] AH00455: Apache/2.4.4 (Win32) PHP/5.4.16 configured -- resuming normal operations
  [Sun Nov 03 07:11:22.842424 2013] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 5408:tid 416] AH00456: Server built: Feb 23 2013 13:07:34
  [Sun Nov 03 07:11:22.842424 2013] [core:notice] [pid 5408:tid 416] AH00094: Command line: 'c:\\wamp\\bin\\apache\\apache2.4.4\\bin\\httpd.exe -d C:/wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.4.4'
  [Sun Nov 03 07:11:22.844424 2013] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 5408:tid 416] AH00418: Parent: Created child process 4348
  [Sun Nov 03 07:11:24.173500 2013] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 4348:tid 324] AH00354: Child: Starting 150 worker threads.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>More info:
  The error is not a 404. Rather wordpress doesnt recognize my username/password.</p>
  
  <p>final edit:</p>
  
  <p>found a solution to my problem:
  <a href="http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/how-to-add-an-admin-user-to-a-wordpress-database/" rel="nofollow">http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/how-to-add-an-admin-user-to-a-wordpress-database/</a></p>