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I got this working, sort of. The sub-menu links send me to my choice url, but apache reports directory and root do not exist for wp-login.php -- understandable, since, as a file, it isn't a folder tree component.
The other problems are that the URL is localhost/wordpress/wp-login.php, so it isn't dropping localhost and it isn't auto-filling the login form like it does when I manually visit the page via browser URL bar. When I logout, my credentials appear in the login form, but they're gone the next time I bring up the form via WAMPs VirtualHosts sub-menu link.

specs:
Windows 10 Pro
WAMPserver 3.0.4 32bit
Apache 2.4.18
PHP 5.6.19
MySQL 5.7.11



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/18/2016 08:16AM by IT Hertz.

Hi,

Did you install WP using the Virtual Host name or did you install WP using the url localhost/wordpress/.....

Remember that WP remembers the domain (url) you use when installing and will then force that onto the url it uses to make internal redirects

This may help [codex.wordpress.org]

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ahh.. I figured it would be something really simple I had overlooked.

I removed localhost from the site & home URLs in the database, which took care of that issue.

Then I changed the vhost to point to wp-admin instead of wp-login.php, which fixed the DocumentRoot and Directory error notices on the localhost page (and sub-menu).

It's working 100% now -- I have sub-menu links for the front-end and the admin login with pre-filled creds, yay!