Keep getting index page when logging in

  • I have tried installing WordPress 2 ways. Firstly I did it through Fantastico Deluxe and then manually myself through Filezilla. In both instances WordPress said that it had been installed.

    My problem is that I get an index page coming up when I try to login. This index page lists all of my files. I was able to login by clicking on wp-login.php. When I did it the first time I was able to bring up the dashboard and start setting up my Blog but I was unable to view my Blog. I tried this numerous times, removing the files and reinstalling it through fantastico. Finally i gave up and did it manually. It took awhile and was excited when WordPress finally said that it was installed.

    When I did it manually, it created a new password for me was able to login once using it but it went directly through to the index page again. I have tried logging in again but now it doesn’t recognise me at all.

    I know this has to be something simple but I’m brain dead at the moment. Can anyone please answer my call as to why this is happening? I would soooo appreciate.

    Thanking up in advance.

    Cheers

    Cathy

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  • Try adding:
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
    to the top of your WordPress .htaccess file.

    I’ve been having the same issue here. The Dashboard “half show up”… and by that there is some functionality, but no images and html pages.

    Thoughts?

    BTW – i just tried the .htaccess suggestion, and although there is some improvement, the dashboard isn’t correct and index page looks like an html page circa 1992 – no page style (and yes I doubled checked that my browser is set to view page styles)

    @cbltim: Different issue. Post a new topic please.

    @esmi: thanks for the suggestion but I believe tc123 and I, have at root of everything, the same issue.

    After installation, the “HTML” type page view is not available. There is a directory listing of what’s present (or as tc123 puts it: an ‘index page’, not to confused with index.php or index.html but ‘index’ as in a file-list or table of contents).

    Continuing further from you earlier suggestions, I created a new .htaccess file and that has sorted out some issues, but not all. I’m starting to think that the WP 2.9.2 version I downloaded this morning, either does not have a correct .htaccess file, or for some reason or another my existing (if I had one) .htacess file was not modifiable by WP upon installation.

    what I’m thinking is:
    Delete everything > create a new .htaccess and chomd it to 777 > then re-install WP 2.9.2 over-top ??

    Thread Starter tc123

    (@tc123)

    Esmi and cbltim thanks for your comments.

    I finally managed to find the .htaccess file which I found in the root directory but it’s not in the folder which holds the WordPress files. Is it mean’t to be?

    I am unsure what you mean by adding DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm. In my WordPress folder I have found an index.php but there is no index.htm or html. Are you wanting me to create a blank index file?

    My apologies for being so vague, I am still fairly new at this and I am not up with all the techo slang.

    cbltim yes you were correct about my referring to ‘index’ as in a file-list or table of contents. When I login..yes I can now. The correct password helps. I get

    Index of /wp-admin
    Parent Directory
    admin-ajax.php
    admin-footer.php
    admin-functions.php
    admin-header.php
    etc

    If you could explain in a bit more detail, I would appreciate it.

    Thanks again

    @tc123: Try adding the line I gave you to the .htaccess file in your root directory.

    Are you wanting me to create a blank index file?

    No. The line I gave is simply a standard method of giving the server a list of files – in priority order – that it should treat as the “index” page.

    Thread Starter tc123

    (@tc123)

    esmi thanks again for your patience.

    When I go into the Root Directory from File manager it shows folders including my .com folder which is where I uploaded wordpress. The .htaccess is a text/x generic oytside this folder. Is this what it should be? When you say add the line are you saying to add this to the .htaccess and make it .htaccessDirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm which doesn’t seem right. But besides that I don’t know of any other way to do it.

    Please help.

    Cathy

    No. Download that .htaccess file. Open it in a plain text editor, add that line to the top, save the file and re-upload it.

    Thread Starter tc123

    (@tc123)

    esmi

    THANK YOU, THANK YOU for taking the time to answer my questions.

    Would this maybe have been the reason for the same error I had when I tried using fantastico to install WordPress?

    Again thank you.

    Have an awesome weekend.

    Cheers
    Cathy

    It was almost certainly the same issue.

    back at it today and I’ve removed my WP install; re-created a .htaccess file with

    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

    as ESMI suggested; chmod’d the .htaccess file 777 to allow WP write access; re-downloaded WP2.9.2 and installed this ‘fresh’ version overtop. still no success.

    Different results than yesterday however. Now there isn’t anything showing up – no file listing index; no page style, no hello world, nada, nothing (even when checking the page source there’s nothing there). The dashboard is the same as before, functional but with no background. This is just weird!

    TC123 – did you have success?

    everything up and running now (phew!)

    ended up replacing the http.conf file with a different WP installation and the site seems works just fine.

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