Installation in subdomain problems 404 not found

  • Resolved Staindrop123

    (@staindrop123)


    10 years, 12 months ago

    I don’t know what happened to my original post 3 hours ago – it disappeared – did someone remove it for some undisclosed reason?

    This is my first ever WordPress installation. I have used Softaculous to do the installation. I installed into a subdomain using firstname.familyname.info/blog (anonymized firstname and familyname). I have edited the initial default WordPress 1st entry with trivial changes to test. I can navigate ok to firstname.familyname.info/blog in Firefox and see my initial edited post. When I click on any of the links on that first page I get an error:
    *************************
    404 Not Found

    The server can not find the requested page:

    /blog/?p=1 (port 443)

    Please forward this error screen to firstname.familyname.info’s WebMaster
    **************************
    When I hover over the links on the first blog, I see variants of firstname.familyname.info/blog/?p1, or, firstname.familyname.info/blog/?cat=1, etc. All links on the page produce the same error (except the link to wordpress.org).
    I would expect the error message to identify the missing page as firstname.familyname.info/blog/?p1 but it is only identified as /blog/?p1 and the webmaster for forwarding the error screen is to the hosting webmaster, not the webmaster (me) at my blog site.
    Am I missing something post installation so those links resolve correctly?

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  • RobinInTexas

    (@robinintexas)

    10 years, 12 months ago

    It seems that there is a configuration problem at your hosting, without being able to see the domain and the error it’s difficult to diagnose.

    Make sure the settings

    Settings > General > WordPress Address (URL)

    and Site Address (URL)

    each match http://firstname.familyname.info/blog

    salmanbaig0312

    (@salmanbaig0312)

    10 years, 12 months ago

    Remove everything using capanel>filemanager and try to install WordPress again, I mean manually. 🙂 Its not a big issue so dont worry.

    Thread Starter Staindrop123

    (@staindrop123)

    10 years, 12 months ago

    Many thanks for those suggestions. @robinintexas – yes, I think there must have been a configuration problem at the hosting site, or with Softaculous handling a subdomain. I tried adjusting the WordPress Address and Site address as you suggested and got the same errors. @salmanbaig0312 – I tried that – removed the WordPress installation completely and installed manually using cPanel to create the database and FTP to load the code. You were right – not a big issue – and it seems to have worked.

    So I’m left with the conclusion it was either Softaculous or hosting settings – at least the problem is now solved. I guess the moral of the story is do it manually!

    Thanks for you contributions.

    brijesh-soft

    (@brijesh-soft)

    10 years, 12 months ago

    Hi,

    I am from the Softaculous team.
    It seems that the issue could be due to the .htaccess file which was present on your server. When you deleted all the contents (including .htaccess) and then installed WordPress again which fixed the issue.

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