I’m a beginning Magento programmer. I used to access the backend as localhost/magento/admin and everything was working fine on WAMP. I could access any route I set up in config.xml as localhost/magento/(frontName) and my controllers were working fine.
Then I was trying to get Zend Debugger working with Eclipse, and in the process I fiddled with things, reinstalled WAMP and Magento a couple of times, installed Zend Server CE and later removed it, and MAYBE fiddled with some settings – don’t remember exactly what I changed.
Ultimately, I’m back on WAMP, but now localhost/magento/admin is broken and the backend must be accessed as localhost/magento/index.php/admin, which is ugly. Also, I can’t get any routes working. localhost/magento/(frontName) is broken, localhost/magento/index.php/(frontName) gives a 404 error within Magento.
I’ve been trying to fix this for nearly 2 days now; I’d be grateful for any help. Sorry about the n00b question.
And you are sure the mod rewrite is enabled? Can you get to the frontend at all? do you have sample data installed can you get to any products or categories?