New user and I am totally stuck.

Hi ifrydr,

Can you supply us with the domain in question so we can test ourself?

What do you see when you go to yourdomain?

Many hosts include a landing page, named something similar to index.html, that says “Website coming soon”. If you’re seeing something similar to this, then their landing page may be overriding the WordPress index.php file and loading first. What you’ll want to do is check if this is the case, and if so, remove the index.html file they’ve included with your account.

It looks like your either missing your index.php file or the server isn’t set up to use it. Try grabbing index.php from a new WordPress download and upload it to your root directory (where WordPress is installed). If your index.php file exists and is fine you can try adding:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

to the top of your .htaccess file. If you don’t have an .htaccess file yet, you can just make a text file with that line in it, upload it, then rename it to .htaccess.

Edit: Was the file you deleted part of WordPress? If it was, you can just upload a new copy of it.