I have just installed wordpress from cpanelX and it seemed to install correctly. To install it I was instructed to delete the index from my host file manager which I did. Now I can change the theme, write a post etc etc but nothing is changing my original home page. I know this is pretty basic but I am a novice. Help!
very basic question on first steps (25 posts)
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singlegirl
Posted 2 years ago # -
Can you provide a link to your blog? It's easier to investigate the problem if we can see it.
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Posted 2 years ago #I can but there is nothing to see yet. Just the original holding page.
http://www.talesofasinglegirl.com
there is obvio a key basic step missing. Can you dumb it down so I can understand??
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Yes, you actually have an index.html file in the root directory at
talesofasinglegirl.com/index.html. Delete this file and everything should work correctly. -
Posted 2 years ago #I already did this on the file manager, it was in the instructions from my hosting company. It still doesn't seem to be working. Is there another way of deleting other than from the file manager?
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Posted 2 years ago #or do you mean physically delete it from the hard drive?
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It's still there. If your cPanel is like mine, go to the File manager and select "Web Root" if it asks where to go. If it doesn't, then it's going to the Home Directory. Just make sure that you navigate to public_html. Once there, select the index.html file and hit the Delete button up top. If that doesn't work, you'll have to access your server via an FTP client and physically delete the index.html file.
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Posted 2 years ago #I have gone to file manager to delete and also have deleted the actual index.html file and it is still not working. I don't know what accessing the server via FTP client means?
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thisisedie
Posted 2 years ago #Is WP installed in the root or in a directory of its own?
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http://www.talesofasinglegirl.com/index.htmlstill exists, so the file is still there.First, you'll need to get an FTP client, then get the connection instructions from your hosting provider. Once you're connected to your server with your FTP client, navigate to the
/public_html/directory, and delete theindex.htmlfile.Alternatively, you may be able to ask your hosting prover's support department to "Delete the index.html file in
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Posted 2 years ago #The index.html had not been deleted. If it was, you wouldn't see it when you go to your URL.
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thisisedie, it's installed in the root.
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Posted 2 years ago #Heh, I just did some looking and saw that ;)
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Posted 2 years ago #now when I got to the site I get a list format headed 'Index of..'.
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index.phpfile is missing. Download WordPress again and upload just theindex.phpfile to/public_html/. -
Posted 2 years ago #Ahhh! I bet you deleted the index.php instead of the index.html the first time!
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Posted 2 years ago #I know this is v basic and I appreciate your patience in helping me. I have never done this before and don't know what you mean by uploading index.php file to /public_html/ ???
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Posted 2 years ago #See the red download button in the upper right hand corner of the page? Download it, unzip it, and then upload the index.php to the same place you deleted the index.html :o)
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Posted 2 years ago #Sorry -- in the same area where you deleted the index.html, there should be an option to upload. Click that and then you should be able to choose the index.php from your hard drive.
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Posted 2 years ago #AHA. Its worked. Not quite sure how but I got there in the end. Thank you macmanx and thisisedie for your help. Appreciate it.
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You're welcome!
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Posted 2 years ago #another question now, how do I change the font of the titles? I know I can add it to the html code but am not sure where in the code to insert it?
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You'll have to use the "Editor" under the "Appearance" section of the admin panel to edit the "Stylesheet". Once there, you're looking for the line that starts with
#blogcontent .titleSee this tutorial for working with fonts in CSS and this tutorial for formatting text with CSS.
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Posted 2 years ago #so I have inserted a line
#blogcontent .title p{font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC", Times, serif;
is this correct? it doesn't seem to have changed anything
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I think you changed the wrong one. I think you want to change
#blogcontent .title a
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