New installation = 404 Not Found

  • Hi. I am really new to WordPress and have a very limited knowledge of online applications.

    I have installed WordPress using the Fantastico wizard on my cPanel, so I assume it was done correctly?

    However I now get a…

    Not Found

    The requested URL /wp-admin/ was not found on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    … error message when I try to visit my /wp-admin/ page.

    I’ve done some research on this forum and others and everyone who has had this problem has solved it by amending the domain in php_myadmin. However this seems to be the solution if you have accidentally locked yourself out by changing settings withing your WordPress admin. I haven’t even been able to get that far yet.

    A quick back story that may be relevant: This was my second attempt at installing WordPress. The first attempt through Fantastico brought back a whole list of errors so I uninstalled it. However I wasn’t able to reinstall it and learnt, through this forum, that I needed to delete the “installed_in_root.php” file in /.fantasticodata. Once I did that I was able to install it but then started having this new issue.

    Any help would be really appreciated as I’ve been struggling with this for days!

    Thanks! ??

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  • Thread Starter hydraglyph

    (@hydraglyph)

    One further point: I have 2 domains associated with my hosting package. If I install WordPress to the main domain it seems to work fine. However, if I install it to the addon domain (which is a subfolder in the root folder and the domain I am trying to use for my blog) it is coming back with this 404 error.

    can you give a link? to where it is supposed to be?

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