Title: installation complete-now… Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # installation complete-now… * [budgetdiva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budgetdiva/) * (@budgetdiva) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-complete-now/) * now that I have got the installation complete how do i get my domain to point to the blog? * ex: when i enter the domain name i get Welcome! Thank you for joining BlueHost. Com! Delete this file and upload your own “index.html” web page. * How do i change that? Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-complete-now/#post-311382) * Delete the index.html file and you should be good to go 🙂 * Thread Starter [budgetdiva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budgetdiva/) * (@budgetdiva) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-complete-now/#post-311441) * i deleted the index file and still nothing…help * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-complete-now/#post-311445) * 1. Give us a link. 2. Are you sure WP is installed in the root and not in a directory? * Thread Starter [budgetdiva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budgetdiva/) * (@budgetdiva) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-complete-now/#post-311446) * i think so…the link is [http://www.budgetdiva.net](http://www.budgetdiva.net) * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-complete-now/#post-311447) * You think wrong 🙂 Your wordpress is here: [http://www.budgetdiva.net/wordpress/](http://www.budgetdiva.net/wordpress/) If you want it to appear in the root, i.e. at [http://www.budgetdiva.net/](http://www.budgetdiva.net/) follow this turotial: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory) * …or re-install it in the root, not in a directory as it is now. * [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/) * (@petit) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-complete-now/#post-311450) * If however you want something else at your base address, i.e. [http://www.budgetdiva.net/](http://www.budgetdiva.net/) for example an ordinary static web, you should put hour home page ( index.html) here. I suppose you deleted the original index.html following the advice above. * As it stands just now the base address gives a directory listing, which is not advisable. If you still ar going to move the blog, just go with moshu above. * Thread Starter [budgetdiva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budgetdiva/) * (@budgetdiva) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-complete-now/#post-311451) * I am a novice and have no idea what that is telling me to do…is there an easier way. Where is the root? * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-complete-now/#post-311453) * The “root” of a website is the top level directory, in your case the public_html– in other words what is displayed at budgetdiva.net * What exactly would you like? As petit said you have 2 options: – to have something else at budgetdiva.net and having the blog at budgetdiva.net/wordpress or – to have your blog displayed at budgetdiva.net * For the second option as I said above you either move/reinstall your WP in the public_html or you follow the tutorial I linked to. * Thread Starter [budgetdiva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budgetdiva/) * (@budgetdiva) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-complete-now/#post-311455) * I want the website to point to [http://www.budgetdiva.net](http://www.budgetdiva.net). I apologize for the confusion. I just really don’t know what I am doing and am seeking help. The tutorial that you gave me is giving me way too much info than I can handle. I am trying. sorry. * Thread Starter [budgetdiva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budgetdiva/) * (@budgetdiva) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-complete-now/#post-311462) * i just contacted customer support and was told that my root directory is the public_html and that I should look at the index.html file first. However I deleted the index file so that the website would be viewable, this is before I knew that I had in the wrong directory. I no longer have that file so what are my options now? * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-complete-now/#post-311466) * I think you have ftp access, so it would be relatively easy. Please, follow these steps exactly in this order and do not skip any of them: 1. Login to your blog admin and go Options > General 2. Change the the URI (addresses) to [http://budgetdva.net](http://budgetdva.net) BOTH! 3. Do NOT try to see your blog in a browser! 4. Do not try to open your blog in a browser… just 5. Open your ftp program and after connecting to your site delete the “wordpress” folder. 5a. If you don’t have a backup on your computer, then first download the folder and then delete it 6. Do not upload it again by clicking on the “wordpress” directory on your computer. 7. In the FTP program click on the “wordpres directory” on your computer and upload ONLY the content of it, not the directory itself! If the upload was successful, your blog should be visible at budgetdiva.net. * EDIT. The “content” means the 3 folders AND all the files that are inside of the wordpress folder! 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