Title: Installing wordpress and index.html
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# Installing wordpress and index.html

 *  [ayane9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ayane9/)
 * (@ayane9)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-and-indexhtml/)
 * I am editing a website hosted through machighway. the website is relatively old
   and base been edited though iWeb in the past. I went thought machighways administrative
   portal cpanel to install wordpress. Installing wordpress went smoothly selected
   a theme and everything.
 * And then here lies the problem, making any changes though the worpress admin 
   portal changes nothing. The old iWeb website still loads. i have scoured the 
   web on how to fix this and i found that there is an index.html file in the root
   directory from iWeb. in this case my root is /home/lolk/public_html . there is
   an index.html file in there but even upon removing it no changes take effect.

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 *  [cheesedude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheesedude/)
 * (@cheesedude)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-and-indexhtml/#post-5858456)
 * > i found that there is an index.html file in the root directory from iWeb… there
   > is an index.html file in there but even upon removing it no changes take effect.
 * Try hitting Crtl + F5 to force your browser to load the lastest version and not
   the cached version.
 * index.html must be deleted, as you seem to have done. If it keeps reappearing,
   then you have a different problem and need to contact your web host.
 *  [Jay Versluis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/versluis/)
 * (@versluis)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-and-indexhtml/#post-5858673)
 * Hi ayane9,
 * browsers try to load that index file by default. They will also try to load start
   and home files too, and it depends on the browser which file is attempted first.
   Furthermore, you could have an index.htm and an index.html file at the same time,
   and again it depends on the browser to load either one of them first.
 * Because WordPress is PHP based, its main file is index.php. Make sure it’s the
   only variation of index.* in your home directory and rename (or delete) all others,
   including home.* and start.*
 * This particular file will only be picked up if WordPress is installed in your
   root directory: so if it lives in a subfolder then you must navigate to the subfolder
   in order to load WordPress in your browser (example.com/wordpress). Do you have
   WordPress installed in the root directory?

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 * [iWeb](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/iweb/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Jay Versluis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/versluis/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-and-indexhtml/#post-5858673)
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