Are the lessons in Silverstripe website accurate?

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I don’t know whats wrong if its just me or Silverstripe but I’m not getting the same exact result that what the lessons in the website are saying. I doubt that they are really accurate.

I am sure that i followed the instructions carefully but i got stucked at the 1st lesson. Creating your first project.

I have installed local sever wamp as there needs to be a local server running.
Copied the downloaded silverstripe v4.2.1 in the www/ folder of wamp.
Installed silverstripe using localhost.
Installation was successful.
Created my-themes/ folder inside themes/ folder in root directory.
Created folders within my-themes/ for css/, javascript/ and images/. Also, a templates/ folder in which i created Includes/ and Layouts/ in it.
The lesson asked me to move the css/, javascript/ and images/ to public/ folder and so I did. I left the templates folder where it was supposed to be.
The lesson said it was looking sparse so it asked me to move the css/, javascript/ and images/ to public/ folder in root directory and so I did.
It also asked me to move (“not copy”) the templates/ folder inside the mysite/ folder which is now the app folder in SIlverstripe v4.2.1.
Asked me to delete the themes/ folder in root directory.
Next thing I did was i created a Page.ss file with a “Hello world!” proof of concept which i saved in public/templates/ folder which is clearly indicated in the lesson.
I flushed the cache
Renamed the mysite.yml to app.yml
Flushed the cache again
Entered localhost/silverstripe in url
I am still getting the Silverstripe default page. and “NOT” the Hello world proof of concept Page.ss template…

Please help this is making me crazy

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Where is the web root of your server pointing? Is it pointing at www or at www/public ?
Ideally, if you’re implementing the public directory structure, then it should be pointing at the public directory itself.

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It is pointing at www/ folder. What i did was i copied the silverstripe/ folder in the www/ folder so the url path that you need to enter in order for you to get to the project is localhost/silverstripe

This is what is displaying even with Page.ss have already been created:

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This is how the files look like:

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Below is the configuration in the file httpd.conf of my root directory in wamp

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Hello lmnlis,

If you want to check then you have to Type hello world in, themes/your-current-theme/templates/Layout/Page.ss file.

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That will definitely work but when i followed the instruction on website. It asked me to move the templates/ folder that has the Page.ss to the app/ folder.

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But You can see in the image there is folder name mysite and in v4.2 it would be changed to app. so might be it can’t be use in 4.2.

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so you mean i am following an outdated lesson?

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Hello Imnlis,

It does not worked in v 4.2 so it might be outdated.

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