Unable to access wordpress site on local host - err: This localhost page can’t be found

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Hi All i am facing issue with wordpress installation.

I downloaded wordpress setup from wordpress.org and moved it in var/www/html but when i try to access it from localhost/wordpress. Iget the following error This localhost page can’t be found .

but when i try localhost/wordpress/wp-admin it redirects to my other project wp-admin like http://localhost/xyz/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

I have not started with installation as yet. and i am able to access my other localhost wordpress sites. But any fresh downloaded wordpress site i am unable to access.

I am working in ubuntu

Things that i have tried renaming my .htaccess to .htaccess_temp - to ensure if it is ht access issue and i still get the same error.

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phpwordpressapacheinstallation
What is your web server? – Empty Brain
Have you check your folder permission 755 and file permission should be 644. – dineshkashera
@EmptyBrain Apache2 – rajiv
@dineshkashera - Yes permissions are intact and owner is www-data:www-data – rajiv
@rajiv Are you using your previous project database? if so then you need to change siteurl and home from the database wp_option table. – Empty Brain

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Got it fixed. There was a hidden wp-config in my root folder which was interrupting the flow.. once deleted the link works fine