After you’ve fully configured everything, load the index.php file that’s in the directory you installed WordPress to and your blog should appear.
If you want the blog to show up as the front page for your entire site, then there are a few more steps to take. If you’re site is www.example.com and you installed WordPress at www.example.com/wp: You should access your admin panel and change the ‘Blog Address’ field tohttp://www.example.com; then edit the line index.php in the /wp directory that says:
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
to:
require('./wp/wp-blog-header.php');
And that should be that.
Want to back up a bit and explain more?
Have you downloaded and installed WordPress?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
Thread Starter
cglace
(@cglace)
yes. I have downloaded wordpress. When I post it doesn’t show up on my file maneger. When I click the view site button it doesn’t show me the blog just a list of files in my file maneger.
Thread Starter
cglace
(@cglace)
I guess my problem is that I can’t find the index.php file to load.
cglace: When I post it doesn’t show up on my file maneger.
That’s good 🙂 They shouldn’t show up in any “file manager”. Your posts are stored in the database.
Thread Starter
cglace
(@cglace)
hmm… I guess I’ll try looking there =-). But, what about my index file I can’t seem to find it either…. database as well?
No, the index.php should be on your server. Did you upload all the WP files through a FTP client to your server? If the index is not there, try to upload again!
Thread Starter
cglace
(@cglace)
ok. where are my files to ftp to my server? and how do i ftp them there? I’m sorry I have no clue what I’m doing!
Thread Starter
cglace
(@cglace)
ok. I have the ftp thing sorted out. Now i just need to know if wordpress saves the index.php to… does it even make an index.php file?
You need to upload the index.php file which came with WordPress. The content will be dynamically generated by WordPress.
Just follow the detailed installation instructions and you’ll do fine.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Detailed_Instructions
Thread Starter
cglace
(@cglace)
do you have aim or something that I could contact you with so I can explain my entire situation?
No, I’m at work so I’m in and out. An IM conversation would be pointless as I may be away at odd intervals of 5 minutes to an hour. Please describe your situation, in detail, here.
Thread Starter
cglace
(@cglace)
ok I have wordpress up and running. I just don’t understand how to get my index.php file to show up as my homepage. I have found two index.php files and when I put them in my public_html folder neither one of them shows up as anything. The posts I have made go to my data base…
Does it have something to with the upload thing with wordpress? If so it says that i cannot write files to the directory selected…
