Hi RiggsFolly, thanks for the reply.
I followed your link and decided to quickly start over: I didn't have a huge amount of luck when trying to configure a vhost manually on WAMP2.5, so I spotted that 3.X has an easier way and installed that instead (the intranet site is small enough that I can recreate it easily if it all goes horribly wrong!). I had to change wamp's port to 8081, but that was no trouble.
So I've followed the steps on that page and now have a sitename of 'staff.intranet' with a sitefolder of C:\intranet, rather than having it in the wamp/www folder as before. I've gone into phpmyadmin and created an 'intranet' database (though have no way to tell if this applies to both localhost AND vhost), and I'm now trying to reinstall Wordpress by extracting the files for it directly into that C:\intranet folder and navigating to [
staff.intranet]. Unfortunately, navigating there (or to any variation of it) gives me nothing.
So really I just want to check a few things: mainly, when I'm creating a database is that created centrally and then both locahost and staff.intranet read it together, or is there a way to create one specifically for a certain host? I'm left-clicking the 'W' icon and going to 'phpmyadmin' there, which loads the webpage at localhost:8081. If I try to load 'http://staff.intranet:8081', or click on 'staff.intranet' listed under the vhosts on that webpage, I get:
Unable to determine IP address from host name ‘staff.intranet’
The DNS server returned:
Name Error: The domain name does not exist.
Which suggests to me the database I'm creating is just on localhost...
I've restarted DNS both using the menu command in Wampserver and manually through cmd.
This question probably seems quite silly, but I have no experience in hosting of any kind.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/11/2016 01:00PM by ets-ict.