Did you upload in root or a folder if it is in root then there may be a index.html file in root you can delete it
I set it up in it’s own folder. They have a welcome.html but not an index.html file.
if you installed in a folder then there should be no problem.
Did you buy domain name from Go Daddy or some other registrar
may be your DNS is not setup
It is in a folder and I did a 301 redirect to put it to wordpress.index.php. They say it takes up to 24 hours. The domain name was bought through GoDaddy too.
Sorry, I meant wordpress/index.php
Did you read the link I gave above about giving WordPress its own directory?
Yes, I did that when I uploaded the files.
So you changed the blog URL to point to the root folder, copied the index.php file up and edited it…
What’s in your .htaccess out of curiosity?
I haven’t checked it. I did redirect it to the wordpress folder with it going to index.php. It seems that it’s directed to go to the welcome page and that page can’t be moved. I guess I’ll have to wait to see when the redirect goes through.
Delete the welcome.HTML file 🙂
You don’t need to make a 301 redirect to the wordpress/index.php at this point. If you copy the index.php from wordpress (the folder) to the main HTML root and edit that to point to wordpress, you’ve done what needs doing.
Redirects don’t matter. The .htaccess will handle it all when we get there.
I made copies of wp_load, index.php and wp-blog-header.php and got the following error:
Warning: require_once(/home/content/38/6949138/html//wp-includes/classes.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/38/6949138/html/wp-load.php on line 46
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/content/38/6949138/html//wp-includes/classes.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php’) in /home/content/38/6949138/html/wp-load.php on line 46
Why did you copy over all those?
Look. Delete everything you just dumped into the HTML folder.
Re-read http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
ONLY copy over the index.php file, and ONLY edit that.
No 301 redirect. No extra files. Just that.
It works. I didn’t do anything with the hta.access file but the little change in the blog header link was all that it took. Thank you so much.
