Is there an index.html from your host in that directory? Delete or rename it? The only index.* file in there should be the one from WordPress.
Thank you – I hadn’t noticed that these weren’t WordPress. Now I’m getting a 403 forbidden message – but I remember seeing some instructions for dealing with this, I will see if I can find them.
I have found the instructions for the 403 forbidden error message but the menu ‘Web options’ is not an available option on my Control Panel. Is this definitely referring to the websitesettings Control Panel?
Hard to say.
Tell us again where you think you’ve installed WordPress?
It doesn’t appear to be at http://www.maginrose.com/ — is it in a subdirectory?
Yes. It’s in a sub-directory. web/content. I checked with my host (Laughing Squid) and there shouldn’t be a problem with the page being index.php. Should the web-admin file be immediately under ‘WordPress’? Currently is is under wp-content?
wp-admin is a directory and should be at the same level as wp-content.
What URL do you think the blog is at? (Laughing Squid could help with that)
Actually, ignore that last bit of the previous post – I have two files called wp-admin, one directly under WordPress and one under wp-content.
I’m sorry, do you mean my domain name? This is http://www.maginrose.com or do you mean a different URL?
Following on from the previous posts I have checked through all the steps again. I can confirm that if I put an html index page on my site then that works – what I can’t do is to install WordPress. I have filled in all the information on the congig file and uploaded the whole, unzipped WordPress directory onto my website under http://www.maginrose/web/content but when I then try to open a page http://www.maginrose.com/web/content/wp-admin/install.php or http://www.maginrose.com/web/content/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php I just get a message saying the link is broken. I have also tried moving the contents of the WordPress directory into the main ‘content’ directory as well as leaving them in the WordPress directory, neither strategies has worked.
If I delete my index.html page then I get a 403 error message which suggests to me that my site isn’t recognising any php files – but I don’t know what to do about this. My host ‘Laughing Squid’ indicates that it is php compatable and my MySQL is set to PHP 5, I am really at a loss as to how to proceed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The URL is http://www.maginrose.com/wp-admin/install.php
When you upload to /web/content/ that’s what we call your ‘web root’ 🙂
Sorry, Ipstenu. I swear I saw it. Seems he keeps shifting them.
ok, so i was running into the same problem over and over again, and finally got it resolved!
im hosting with laughing squid, but i imagine that most hosts run the same way.
if youre getting the 404 error, make sure youre installing it into the correct directory.
when you log into your site with your FTP, there should be a folder named something like http://www.YOURDOMAINNAME.com
in that folder will be a folder called WEB, and a directory in WEB called CONTENT. this content folder is where you need to install all of your wordpress files.
you can create a subdirectory within /WEB/CONTENT if you like (and its probably a good idea.
then when you attempt to run the install.php, you simply open your browser and go to http://www.YOURDOMAINNAME.com/WPDIR/wp-admin/install.com (where WPDIR is the subdirectory you uploaded to)
everything in the /WEB/CONTENT folder is accessible through your browser. hopefully that helps and/or makes sense.
good luck!
