Cannot "View Site"

Resolved hiimmels
(@hiimmels)

11 years, 11 months ago

Hello, I’m new to WordPress and having difficulty because I cannot see my site. I am logged in as admin and when I click “view site” my site pulls up but says that it’s under construction. Does anyone have any ideas of where I went wrong? I also cannot see anything when I go to customize.

I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled and even created a new WordPress account but no luck. Do I need to publish the site somehow? I thought that it published automatically.

My hosting service is through iPage and the URL is http://www.susannaclermont.com. I really appreciate any help. Thank you!

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esmi
(@esmi)

11 years, 11 months ago

FTP into your site (or use whatever file management application your host provides) & delete the index.html file in your domain’s root folder.

giftors
(@giftors)

11 years, 11 months ago

Hey hiimmels,

if you are an ipage user its always suggested to created a new directory inside root directory and then install your wordpress inside the folder you created.as “you can always point your domain to any folder you want”.

For example:
your website is installed in “/” which is root

now you create a folder test inside your root folder”/test” and point your domain to the directory “/test”

you can try multiple folders and and install multiple wordpress website . ultimately you can keep switching them by pointing your name servers.

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THESE PROCEDURES THEN AS SUGGESTED BY “esmi” DELETE THE INDEX FILE FROM YOUR ROOT DIRECTORY.

Thread Starter hiimmels
(@hiimmels)

11 years, 11 months ago

It worked, it worked! Thank you so much Esmi and Babu, I appreciate you both.

abishekdestroyer
(@abishekdestroyer)

11 years, 3 months ago

hi iam new to wordpress i have installed wordpress using mamp as my local server everything is looking good but when i try to view my website through view my site option in the dashboard i am actually viewing the index/ contents of the page in list form i have deleted the database and used new database still can view my website can anyone help me out with my problem. Thanks

mbw28
(@mbw28)

11 years, 2 months ago

I am having the same problem. All I can see is an “under construction” page. I tried emsi’s suggestion above, but nothing changed. I am a total beginner so the suggestions by Babu above make no sense to me. Is there something else I can do? Thank you!