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1. TexasBoy
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi all,

   I have installed WP using fantastico on hostgator.

   I installed it into the site root (example.com).

   Fantastico created a wp-config.php file for me. It includes a db name, db username and a password (auto generated, I assume as it looks something like this: XWDf235Sfsd23cblA

   The installation went fine, only when I look at either example.com/wp-admin or example.com, I get a 404 Page not found error.

   who knows a reason for this? (i have read heaps of other forum posts but did not see the answer).

2. eudoxus
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I was getting the same thing on my product comparison site Find Cheap Buys Were you able to get it working?

3. TexasBoy
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Not yet. Spent all night on it. Is anyone more experienced than us able to help?

   Regards,

   Ronnie

4. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 5 years ago #

   @ TexasBoy
   I'm on the install4free team. I'll take a look at it if you like. If so, click on my usrname, then the contact button at the top of my test blog. Send me ftp user/pass and blog user/pass.
   I've done several hostgator installs.

5. TexasBoy
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks Samboll..I have contacted you via your form.

   Regards and thanks in advance,

   Cheers,

   Ronnie

6. foodscout
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I just lost 2 days of my life to this problem, or at least something similar, so I wanted to post my solution in case it helps someone else.

   I moved a functioning blog from one hostgator server to a new hostgator server and all of a sudden my wp-admin url would always come up with a 404. Everything else was working fine. I followed all the advice I could find on the forums but nothing made any difference. Finally, a hostgator tech support guy FIXED IT!

   Apparently, at least on some hostgator accounts, all files MUST have permissions set to 644 and folders must have permissions set to 755. I guess this is the case for any of the php applications to work, but it is the case for WordPress at least. I don't know why it's that way, but he changed all the permissions and it worked like a charm.

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