Posted 1 year ago #
Have installed wordpress precisely as per instructions, and logged in successfully, and can administer the site fine - but when I go to 'view site' it's just TOTALLY blank. Nothing there at all. Zilch. Any ideas?
I've installed wordpress before, and managed it with no hitch - this time around I'm totally bemused.
Help appreciated ;-)
did you upload the defualt theme?
whats in the server's error logs?
Posted 1 year ago #
yes, the default theme is in the wp content themes folder. the error log say "403 forbidden", and the page there says, "You don't have permission to access / on this server."
what are the permissions on wp-content?
what are the permissions on wp-content/themes?
what are the permissions on wp-content/themes/default?
what are the permissions on all the files and subdirecotries within wp-content/themes/default?
whats inside any .htaccess on the site?
Posted 1 year ago #
can you tell me how to check permissions?
i can see the .htaccess on my ftp manager, but I can't see what's inside it.
Posted 1 year ago #
Okay, I've figured out how to check permissions, but I still don't know what to do with them:
what are the permissions on wp-content?
rwxr-xr-x (755)
what are the permissions on wp-content/themes?
rwxr-xr-x (755)
what are the permissions on wp-content/themes/default?
rwxr-xr-x (755)
what are the permissions on all the files and subdirecotries within wp-content/themes/default?
the first set of .php files (404, archive, comments, comments-popup, footer, functions, header, image) are all rw-r--r-- (644)
the image folder is rwxr-xr-x (755)
all files in image folder are
rw-r--r-- (644)
whats inside any .htaccess on the site?
permission is 644, but I'm still not sure what you mean by "what's inside any .htaccess on the site?".
Posted 1 year ago #
Inside means what you see when you open it up/open for editing.
.htaccess files are special and must only be opened with a text editor like notepad, never MS Word.
inside there may be something like:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Posted 1 year ago #
okay, there are 2 .htaccess files. the one outside the wordpress folder says:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
the one inside the wordpress folder says:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Posted 1 year ago #
Ah.
So did you install wp into yourdomain.org/
or yourdomain.org/wordpress/ ? or both?
Choose one!
Are you installing manually, or are you using Fantastico or similar 'one-click'install' utility?
Is this an empty install with no content (so it's easy to start over) or an upgrade?
Posted 1 year ago #
trying to install into mydomain.com. which means I should delete the .htacess file within the wordpress folder?
Installing manually, and installing empty. Planning to import posts and content from wordpress.com once I get it set up. Will that be a problem?
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