Getting 404 when trying to access WP JSON API on localhost?

Question

I have seen a number of posts addressing this (such as 404 on http://localhost/wp-json/wp/v2/posts in wordpress using REST API V2) but none of the suggestions have worked. I've tried

chmod'ing wp-content to 777
changing the permalinks to something other than 'plain' (and also changing them to plain and then back again)

I'm trying to access the JSON API from a localhost installation but keep getting a 404 error. Perhaps it's my URL?

I'm trying to access

http://localhost/wp/v2/posts

and I get 404

Someone suggested

/wp-json/wp/v2/

but that didn't work either.

http://localhost/wordpress pulls up the WP page just fine.

I am running this under MAMP Apache on MacOS. WP 5.1. Any help much appreciated!

Cerulean · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-09 12:33:12Z

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The trick (in my case) was to include wordpress in the route. Thus

http://localhost/wordpress/wp-json/wp/v2/posts

works just fine

answered Mar 9, 2019 at 12:33

Cerulean

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