Title: Cannot locate header.php in Cpanel
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Cannot locate header.php in Cpanel

 *  [thirdstoryies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thirdstoryies/)
 * (@thirdstoryies)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-locate-headerphp-in-cpanel/)
 * I’ve successfully created a child theme and I’m ready to start making some customizations
   to the header, but I can’t locate it. I go to wp-content, but there is no longer
   a header file under there -I swear it was there before I created the child theme.

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 *  [kaniamea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaniamea/)
 * (@kaniamea)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-locate-headerphp-in-cpanel/#post-4492036)
 * Your header should be under /wp-content/themes/YOUR THEME/header.php – that’s
   where the original file is. If you want to mofify it, you can take it and put
   it in /wp-content/themes/YOUR THEME-CHILD/header.php
 *  Thread Starter [thirdstoryies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thirdstoryies/)
 * (@thirdstoryies)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-locate-headerphp-in-cpanel/#post-4492049)
 * I’m in the file directory of my cpanel. I go to wp-content, I select the theme
   Coraline, and there is no header.php file there – just colors, images, inc, languages.
   Before I created a child theme I think I remember header being listed there, 
   but maybe I’m just confused.
 *  [kaniamea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaniamea/)
 * (@kaniamea)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-locate-headerphp-in-cpanel/#post-4492057)
 * Coraline theme comes with header.php. You can download the theme again [http://wordpress.org/themes/coraline](http://wordpress.org/themes/coraline)
   and manually upload the header.php file.

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## Tags

 * [cPanel](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cpanel/)
 * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/)
 * [php files](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php-files/)

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 * Last reply from: [kaniamea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaniamea/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-locate-headerphp-in-cpanel/#post-4492057)
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