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Ok, thank you all so much for your help on this. I don’t know how I missed this, but I just noticed that my /beta (i.e. non-Wordpress folder) was filled with a bunch of WordPress files. Everything from wp-activate.php to wp-blog-header.php to the WordPress index.php file. I definitely didn’t put them there so I can only assume WordPress somehow added them when I upgraded.

Very confusing but after carefully weeding out all the WP files it seems to be working okay. Again, a million thanks!

@leejosepho Thanks so much for the help. Especially considering the fact that you need some sleep!

I just assumed that the RewriteBase /wp/ was a signal that the WordPress folder exists in the /wp directory. Do you think that is causing the problem?

I should maybe clarify that the .htaccess file I posted above is contained inside the /wp folder, not the root directory. I just checked there and there is another .htaccess file with just the following code

DirectoryIndex index.php

Is it possible for a site to have multiple .htaccess files in separate folders?

Oh, and I also tried moving the extra two “copy” .htaccess files into another folder and unfortunately, the problem still persists…

Thanks so much for the help, all.

@tara I Just checked and there appears to be a wp-config.php file in the /wp folder. According to my FTP program, its date is 11/15/12 so it looks like it hasn’t been changed recently. Do you think there might be something I need to update? As I mentioned earlier, everything seemed to be working fine until I upgraded to 3.7.1. I wonder if there could be some conflict there?

@leejosepho That’s really interesting. To be honest, I know next to nothing about htaccess files. I just checked and it appears that I have not only one .htaccess file, but also .htaccess copy, and .htaccess copy 2 in the /wp folder. Do you think this could be causing a problem? Here is the code in .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wp/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wp/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

One more thing: I managed to make my way through the unstyled dashboard to see this:

You have the latest version of WordPress.

You have the latest version of WordPress. You do not need to update. However, if you want to re-install version 3.3.1, you can do so automatically or download the package and re-install manually:

Reinstall now / Download 3.3.1

Would it be a good idea to click “Reinstall now”? Would I lose all the data I added to WordPress?

Thanks for your comments. Just to make sure I’m clear—I don’t need to have another page in the root (for example, another html file), but I would like to have other folders in there unrelated to the root WP installation (e.g. my old site in a folder in the root (www.domain.com/old-site). Will this be okay?

AHHH! That is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!!

Thanks, I managed to find the .htaccess file by checking “show invisible files.”

I deleted the .htaccess file, but WordPress won’t let me delete the custom permalink settings. These are currently set to http://www.francesstark.com/wp, which is the directory WP is installed in…

It gives me the following messages when I try to delete the custom permalinkse:

The WordPress address you entered did not appear to be a valid URL. Please enter a valid URL.

The Site address you entered did not appear to be a valid URL. Please enter a valid URL.

Any thoughts?

Sorry, I didn’t know about the pastebin policy and I can’t find a way to modify the original post so I’ll just post this as a comment.

Here is a link to the code for the stylesheet and the main index template:

http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1811621

Again, if anyone could offer any clues it would be greatly appreciated. I’m guessing it must have something to do with some CSS conflicts or omissions…