Title: Upload website to server
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Upload website to server

 *  [jonischake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonischake/)
 * (@jonischake)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-website-to-server/)
 * I have wanted to set up a blog forever and finally decided to go for it last 
   Friday. I followed along with startbloggingonline.com which I thought was going
   well, got wordpress downloaded, ect. Then began trying to manage theme/preview
   my site and I continue to get this message:
    “This site is under development
 * This page indicates the webmaster has not uploaded a website to the server.
 * For information on how to build or upload a site, please visit your web hosting
   company’s site”
 * I am not going to lie- not great with computers, so this could be something super
   easy that I am missing, but I thought even those with little to no computer experience
   could set these sites up?!?! Please help!!

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 *  [John Parris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindctrl/)
 * (@mindctrl)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-website-to-server/#post-6080414)
 * Hi,
 * Who is your web host? If you sign into the site using FTP, what files do you 
   see in the root folder? Can you share a screenshot? It sounds like maybe there’s
   a file overriding the WordPress index.php file.
 *  Thread Starter [jonischake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonischake/)
 * (@jonischake)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-website-to-server/#post-6080474)
 * Thank you so much for a response!
    My web host is iPage. I do not know what FTP
   is, or how to view files in the root folder (seriously, I’m sorry- like I said,
   did not realize I needed so much computer experience to make a page!). What would
   a screenshot of be most helpful?? [http://www.motherrunner.org](http://www.motherrunner.org)
   is the site that I am trying to build, not sure if that helps??
 *  [John Parris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindctrl/)
 * (@mindctrl)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-website-to-server/#post-6080480)
 * If you’ve installed WordPress and are still seeing that page, it usually means
   there’s an index file that’s overriding the index.php file which kickstarts the
   WordPress site. Does iPage have some kind of file browser in their control panel?
   If so, you could use that to get a listing of the files.
 * But, if you’re unfamiliar with all this, it would be best to contact the hosting
   support and tell them that you’ve installed WordPress but still see that message.
   They’ll know exactly what to do.

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 * [server](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/server/)
 * [upload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [John Parris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindctrl/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-website-to-server/#post-6080480)
 * Status: not resolved

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