It shows me the login page..then I put my user/pass then the main index.hmtl appears. I noticed that every link doesn't have index.php in it like below.... http://localhost/?q=user/1 Then I put index.php and the right page came up. That's the issue
I am a genius. :)
So it's an .htaccess issue or even an Apache issue, i.e. your default file needs to be set to index.php and not index.htm or whatever it's set to now. But my genius ends here--someone else will have to say precisely how to adjust this.