I have just started a site on godaddy to do simple blogs. The installation was reported as being successful but I cannot see the website as there is a placeholder on it. I called godaddy and they told me it is an index file issue and to review the forums here. I found a posting that said to delete the index.htm file to let the wordpress index.php file take over but cannot find this anywhere to delete. Can anyone help?
Brand New User- Index File? (12 posts)
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Xaozz
Posted 2 years ago # -
Did you install wp in a subdirectory...maybe http://your_url/wordpress
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Posted 2 years ago #Yes, I did that.
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To make WordPress available at http://mydomain.com just change in Settings->General, the Blog address (URL) to http://mydomain.com and put this index.php file in your web-root folder (it is the same folder that contains the blog folder)
<?php /* Short and sweet */ define('WP_USE_THEMES', true); require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php'); ?>Then update your permalinks in Settings->Permalinks.
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billtcat
Posted 2 years ago #I have a very similar problem (I think). I am installing on my own server and have a hyperlink to the index page on my home page. I can pull up the "welcome page" on my local machine. If I click on any of the internal links however it takes me back to my home page. (the external links to things like wordpress.org, etc. work fine)
If I log on from the outside world and hit the hyperlink to the wordpress index, I get the words but without the theme, and then if I try the internal links I get the "page not found"
This is probably a long way of asking if there is a clear and consise for the newbie description of where all the files should reside?
and where the other files should be commented to point appropriately?
Thanks in advance!
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Posted 2 years ago #To make WordPress available at http://mydomain.com just change in Settings->General, the Blog address (URL) to http://mydomain.com and put this index.php file in your web-root folder (it is the same folder that contains the blog folder)
<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php');
?>Then update your permalinks in Settings->Permalinks.
Ok I altered the Settings->General to the blog name (www.grub-junkie.com)
I created the index.php file as you listed but created it in the "html" area of the file manager tree. Went to the website and a bunch of errors showed up..
I deleted the file and drilled into the "wordp" folder, and there is another index.php file in there with similar information that you listed.I have a feeling based on another users forum post that I am to delete something in the html folder. I have the following files in there.
.htaccess
favicon.ico
gdform.php
missing.html
webformmailer.php
welcome.htmlI assume the gdform.php should be deleted.
I also have three other folders with assorted files in them.
db_backups
php_uploads
wordpI just changed the permalinks to look nicer by deviating from the default. Hopefully that's that you were talking about when you said to update them.
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thisisedie
Posted 2 years ago #I assume the gdform.php should be deleted.
No. Delete welcome.html.
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Posted 2 years ago #Deleted the welcome.html and that did not work
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The index.php (described above) must be in your web-root folder.
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Posted 2 years ago #Is that found in the hosting management -> File manager area from godaddy? This is where I am listing all the information from above.
Where is the web-root folder found?
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Usually with Godaddy, the web-root folder is the first folder you see when entering the File Manager.
If you can't discern your web-root folder, godaddy support should be able to help you.
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dangeroushours
Posted 2 years ago #I am having the same issues. I've tried everything here in this posting and still no go. The godaddy people said I needed to create an index file that redirected me to the WordPress folder in my root directory.
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