Progress! Using yourwebsite.com/blog/index.php gives a new error message indicating a different problem (with the database connection) but that’s off-topic here. Also, I suppose the default page setting is a web host issue, not a wordpress issue. Thanks, Kailash1. Good luck, Thrise!
Thrise – nope.
samboll – I don’t know about Thrise, but I did not use any script from my host. I followed the instructions from the wordpress installation documents: I uploaded the wordpress files with Filezilla to a mymain.com/wp directory. I went to mymain.com/wp/wp-admin/install.php page, filled in the two fields of the 5-minute install process, then went to mymain.com/wp/wp-admin/(default page I guess). Result: 403 Forbidden. Same result at mymain.com/wp.
I have the exact same problem.
