straight to ‘Index of”

  • Resolved guycalledxan

    (@guycalledxan)


    17 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m a complete beginner at WordPress so I may have overlooked something really obvious.

    I’ve tried to install the program on my server from cPanel, it comes as part of the “Fantastico” collection of additional applications. I’ve also just (semi) successfully completed a manual install – that is, all the databases and pages work fine except in both cases I’m getting this problem:

    Whenever WordPress links to its own pages, it goes to the “Index of” view of the containing folder.

    My install folder was “News” so for example; when logging into the admin section, I enter the username and password but then when I hit “login”, instead of taking me to “public_html/News/wp-admin/index.php” it takes me to “public_html/News/wp-admin/”. Even in the preview box under a new blog post it shows the “Index of” view “public_html/News/” folder rather than whatever (I assume) is mean to be there instead.

    This makes the whole thing very hard to navigate and manage (after option changes it goes back to the containing folder).

    Also possibly symptomatic of the same problem; I noticed when I tried to make a test post, the text editing tool icons couldn’t be found/displayed (you know, little red x’s appear then disappear).

    Unless I was using the wrong search terms, I couldn’t find anything about this here in the forum or in the FAQ’s so sorry if it’s a well documented problem.

    Cheers for any help you can give,

    Xan.

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    Talk to your host to make index.php a valid index file!

    Thread Starter guycalledxan

    (@guycalledxan)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    *Ahem* I’m also somewhat new to websites in general (bit embarrasing): will that help considering the index.php(s) are one or two folders deeper than “public_html”?

    But cheers for the advice so far (and the speed of it!)

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    Every folder has to have an index file.
    The extension may vary (.html, .shtml, .php etc.) but the idea is the same: if it exists, the server should display it automatically. Since .php is not set as a valid index file on your server, it does not display it automatically. That’s why you should contact your host!

    All those folders you have problems with, can be still viewed by adding the /index.php to the address – but that’s NOT a long term solution.

    Thread Starter guycalledxan

    (@guycalledxan)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    Right! 🙂

    Well barring a problem from my host I’ll consider that one solved.

    Rather embarrasingly i found the “Long trem problems installing wordpress & phpMyAdmin” thread a few moments ago (but after your first post) – so sorry about that, didn’t mean to waste your time i guess i’m just a slow sercher.

    Really appreciate the help though, and now i know a bit more about about http which is always useful 🙂

    Cheers moshu.

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