I made a complete back-up of my site (clanin.net) on my computer, and set it up with my local Apache and MySQL.

If you go to clanin.net and click on members, it displays the members... but for my computer, it ALWAYS brings up the homepage. I do not understand this!

It is bringing up the homepage on my computer perfectly (reading from the database), but the page always stays the same (if I go to http://localhost/clanin.net/index.php?p=Members it still shows the homepage).

The other problem is that my passwords do not work which are encrypted in MD5.

Also, at the bottom of PhpMyAdmin, it gives me this error:

"Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration."

So, can anyone give me advice on how to get my pages to show, get my password to work, and get the mcrypt error resolved?

You probably need to set up mcrypt. I found this thread on the Apache Forum that looks like it explains how.

I'm guessing that will solve the passwords problem too.

I'm not sure about the first one.

It looks like all your pages are controlled via the querystring, and therefore my guess would be that the reason it isn't working is due to the way you're manipulating it within your code.

More specifically, I think you'll find (various) php settings differences between your live site and the local version. I would recommend checking phpinfo() output on both to bring them closer together - on the assumption that you want to use your local machine as a staging environment or similar...

My guess would be the culprit is register_globals - and your code containing bad practice with respect to this setting/issue...