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1. VeronicaRose
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   1) I used fantastico autoinstall to install wordpress. After choosing a theme I was able to view it when typing veronicarose.com/index.php

   But if I clicked on anything it just went back to my homepage, which seems logical enough since I still had my old index.html in the files.

   Question: Do I have to delete my old index to use the new one?

   2) I thought that maybe I just missed a step in the installation process so I looked around online and realized that I should update and rename wp-config-sample.php. So I did. Ever since then I cannot access veronicarose.com/index.php at all, nor my admin.php

   It could be that I entered the information wrongly (I emailed my host yesterday to have them check but have not heard back yet). The problem is then why did it work before with a sample page? It seems that it shouldn't be any worse off for my tampering with it.

   I'm not sure if that makes sense. But really the mystery of the wp-config.php file and how to get my index.php on my main domain name (www.veronicarose.com) are my two problems.

   Thank you to anyone for any help that you can provide.

2. filosofo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Question: Do I have to delete my old index to use the new one?

   Probably, yes. Most servers will choose index.html before index.php. So you can probably just rename index.html to index.bak. wp-config-sample.php needs to be named wp-config.php and have the right database information, or else your WordPress installation won't work.

3. VeronicaRose
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thank you for the tip about renaming my index.

   Actually I did rename wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php after updating the information and that's when all my problems started. It was actually working better before with the wp-config-sample.php and I can't figure out why.

4. VeronicaRose
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Never mind. I deleted wordpress and reinstalled it. Problem fixed. More or less. I have to put my theme back and the changes that I'd made but that wasn't so difficult. Seems I was messing with things I shouldn't have been because I was confused about the whole index thing.

   I tried the advice given above and changing the index.html name to index.bak was the perfect solution.

   Thanks so much.

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