wp-config.php and index.php installation problems

  • Resolved VeronicaRose

    (@veronicarose)


    19 years, 11 months ago

    1) I used fantastico autoinstall to install wordpress. After choosing a theme I was able to view it when typing veronicarose.com/index.php

    But if I clicked on anything it just went back to my homepage, which seems logical enough since I still had my old index.html in the files.

    Question: Do I have to delete my old index to use the new one?

    2) I thought that maybe I just missed a step in the installation process so I looked around online and realized that I should update and rename wp-config-sample.php. So I did. Ever since then I cannot access veronicarose.com/index.php at all, nor my admin.php

    It could be that I entered the information wrongly (I emailed my host yesterday to have them check but have not heard back yet). The problem is then why did it work before with a sample page? It seems that it shouldn’t be any worse off for my tampering with it.

    I’m not sure if that makes sense. But really the mystery of the wp-config.php file and how to get my index.php on my main domain name (www.veronicarose.com) are my two problems.

    Thank you to anyone for any help that you can provide.

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  • Austin Matzko

    (@filosofo)

    19 years, 11 months ago

    Question: Do I have to delete my old index to use the new one?

    Probably, yes. Most servers will choose index.html before index.php. So you can probably just rename index.html to index.bak. wp-config-sample.php needs to be named wp-config.php and have the right database information, or else your WordPress installation won’t work.

    Thread Starter VeronicaRose

    (@veronicarose)

    19 years, 11 months ago

    Thank you for the tip about renaming my index.

    Actually I did rename wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php after updating the information and that’s when all my problems started. It was actually working better before with the wp-config-sample.php and I can’t figure out why.

    Thread Starter VeronicaRose

    (@veronicarose)

    19 years, 11 months ago

    Never mind. I deleted wordpress and reinstalled it. Problem fixed. More or less. I have to put my theme back and the changes that I’d made but that wasn’t so difficult. Seems I was messing with things I shouldn’t have been because I was confused about the whole index thing.

    I tried the advice given above and changing the index.html name to index.bak was the perfect solution.

    Thanks so much.

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