Can you provide a link to your blog? It’s easier to investigate the problem if we can see it.
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??
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.
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?
or do you mean physically delete it from the hard drive?
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.
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?
Is WP installed in the root or in a directory of its own?
http://www.talesofasinglegirl.com/index.html still 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 the index.html file.
Alternatively, you may be able to ask your hosting prover’s support department to “Delete the index.html file in /public_html/ ” for you.
The index.html had not been deleted. If it was, you wouldn’t see it when you go to your URL.
thisisedie, it’s installed in the root.
Heh, I just did some looking and saw that 😉
now when I got to the site I get a list format headed ‘Index of..’.
The index.php file is missing. Download WordPress again and upload just the index.php file to /public_html/ .
Ahhh! I bet you deleted the index.php instead of the index.html the first time!
