Tom Morton

It sounds like PHP isn’t working.

Open your root site directory (public_html maybe?) and create a new file called “test.php”.

Type in “<?php phpinfo(); ?>” without the quotes and then visit that test file in your browser.

If it does the same thing, I would say Apache isn’t running or PHP isn’t running – possibly your server had an error and shut it down?

HAHA Thats what I get for assuming you had all your plugins deactivated.

Well at least you got the problem solved! Remember to mark resolved.

It is, but the good news is that your site isn’t broken, right?

What did the visual css do for you? Was there something specific?

Shoot.

Well the next option is to try a fresh install. I’d restart your local system first, just for kicks. You never know, that may reset something that makes it work.

Hmm, that might be the problem. Did you stop your local apache server from running?

Wow, very weird. Have you checked your HTAccess file? Its located in whatever folder you installed wordpress in (so if its at your root domain name folder, example.com, then you’ll find it there in the ftp).

There may be an odd redirect there.

Can you link me to your site?

If you don’t care about SEO, look for this (or something similar) in your header.php file:

<title><?php
	/*
	 * Print the <title> tag based on what is being viewed.
	 */
	global $page, $paged;

	wp_title( '|', true, 'right' );

	// Add the blog name.
	bloginfo( 'name' );

	// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
	$site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
	if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
		echo " | $site_description";

	// Add a page number if necessary:
	if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
		echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentyten' ), max( $paged, $page ) );

	?></title>

And replace it with:

<title>This is my custom title</title>

404 error would indicate that your upload did not complete and you couldn’t get the uploading php file.

What is the address bar URL when you get the 404 error?

My suggestion is try a reinstall.