Title: Install WordPress Welcome Screen
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Install WordPress Welcome Screen

 *  [evin-boyle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evin-boyle/)
 * (@evin-boyle)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-wordpress-welcome-screen/)
 * I am very new to this. I followed the directions to install from a youtube video.“
   How To Install WordPress from Scratch – Part 1 and 2”
    I signed up for a hostgator
   account and registered my webpage with namecheap.com. I extracted the WordPress
   files from the zip file and entered MySQL name and password into a file I renamed“
   wp-config.php” I used the filezilla client to transfer all the extracted wordpress
   files to the Hostgator server. From the video it shows that now when I go to 
   my registered website I should see the WordPress install welcome page, but instead
   I get the namecheap.com domain parking site. What do I need to do now? Also, 
   are there any good reference books for WordPress. Thanks.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-wordpress-welcome-screen/#post-1484794)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress)
 *  [thisisedie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisedie/)
 * (@thisisedie)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-wordpress-welcome-screen/#post-1484826)
 * You need to delete the index or home html from the root directory. That’s what’s
   producing the parked page.
 *  [saildude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saildude/)
 * (@saildude)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-wordpress-welcome-screen/#post-1484840)
 * I found “WordPress for Dummies” by Lisa Sabin-Wilson to be very helpful. Starts
   with “this is a WordPress blog” and goes through modifying a Theme
 *  Thread Starter [evin-boyle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evin-boyle/)
 * (@evin-boyle)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-wordpress-welcome-screen/#post-1484920)
 * thanks everyone

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [evin-boyle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evin-boyle/)
 * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-wordpress-welcome-screen/#post-1484920)
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