when searching for an answer it always lead to a .htaccess issue, but that's not what this is.
i'm new to EE since my companies website works on it i'm learning on the fly.
to try to learn it better i installed it to my personal website and i'm starting to get the hang of it. but when i tried to install it on my computer using a WAMP server, the index.php file never showed up. i get a 404 error when going to http://localhost/index.php
after clicking on view rendered template in EE on my computer while WAMP is running.