Transferred site onine…Only displaying index of/

actually at a quick glance several files are missing – the index.php for one – there are more
try uploading the files again

Hi Samuel
The index is defintely here, as well as ht.acess, but they are both outside the folder at the root, where I thought they should go? Will try to re-upload everything otherwise and let you know. Thx.

They go in the folder where you installed WordPress. That’s why the index.php file is there in the zip ??

Well thanks. They are now in the same folder, but here is what I get now…
Unable to open WampServer’s config file, please change path in index.php file

?? Any idea?

WAMP is, I thought, for locally hosted sites. What’s the content of the index.php? Is if from a fresh download of WP, or from what you had on your local install?

Ok guys you have to assume that I know nothing about those things, because this is true lol
So if I let the index file, I’be got this:
Unable to open WampServer’s config file, please change path in index.php file

If I suppress it, we’re back to displaying index of/ instead of the site.
Indeed once the site in hosted online there should be no need of Wamp, and no reference to it. So should I get rid of this index file and create another one instead, and what to put in it?

The current index file is like this:

# BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
        BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
        BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
        BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
        BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
    </IfModule>
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css application/x-javascript text/html text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon
</IfModule>
<FilesMatch "\.(css|js)$">
    FileETag None
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
         Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.1.3"
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|rtf|rtx|svg|svgz|txt|xsd|xsl|xml)$">
    FileETag None
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
         Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.1.3"
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpg|jpeg|jpe|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|mpp|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|swf|tar|tif|tiff|wav|wma|wri|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip)$">
    FileETag None
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
         Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.1.3"
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
# END W3TC Browser Cache

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

Very stressful…

That’s … not the index.php that’s your .htaccess. Or rather, IF that is in your index.php then it’s seriously effed up.

Go here: https://www.ads-software.com/download/

Download WordPress.

Open the zip.

Look at THAT index.php

THAT is what it should look like.

Huge thanks to you Ipstenu. Told you I knew nothing lol
I’ve replaced it by the index.php from a downloaded version fo wordpress, and it works – at least I can access the front page!
https://www.spacessential.com
However now when I try to navigate on the different page here is what I get

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

So of course something is not rightly set for the permalinks or something along those line I guess. I have already modified the wp-config to make it work online so must come from somewhere else…

If you have an idea to resolve this TOO then you’ll be Santa Claus.

Did you save that other stuff (what was in your index.php) into a file called .htaccess?

Well I just tried this, transfered it, and then even the frontpage stopped working ?? So I’ve suppressed this new htacess. I’m depressed now ??

So I’ve suppressed this new htacess.

Okay, make a new .htaccess with JUST this:

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

Then go into WordPress and re-save your permalinks.

Thanks for such assistance mister….pb defo comes from htacess but not solve. If I create this new htacess with this content and upload it, then backend bug and can’t access it anymore, so can’t save permalinks! If U suppress it backend works but not the navigation on the site…~I’m better at French cooking I’m telling you! Think we’re getting closer however…

then backend bug and can’t access it anymore

You need to be a bit more specific here. What backend bug? if you’re talking about the error 500 then do this:

1) Delete the .htaccess
2) Set permalinks to the default UGLY ones (?p=1)

If that works, then you tell your host ‘Hey, I can’t use .htaccess! Is mod rewrite working?’

Mister Ipstenu, you’re a genius. Htaccess suppressed, regular permalinks, everything works WOW. Now I’m gonna dare to ask you one more advice (got plenty mroe questions but will start new specifics threads, better).

My site is built as a static site, not a blog. So it’s all made of pages, put in custom menus and submenus, not post/categories. Which custom permalink structure would you then recommend for better SEO efficiency? (I’d like something type parents page/page title , something simple and clean).

Thanks for all your fantastic help. I’ve got more faith in humanity today lol

Mister Ipstenu, you’re a genius. Htaccess suppressed, regular permalinks, everything works WOW.

It’s Ms. Ipstenu ?? No worries. I would grab your host, though, and tell them that .htaccess isn’t working. They should be able to fix that so you can have pretty URLs again!

Which custom permalink structure would you then recommend for better SEO efficiency?

I have two simple rules for permalinks ??

1) Shorter is Better
2) DON’T use %postname%

I use /%year%/%postname%/ personally, but if you can’t, I’d go with /%post_id%/%postname%/

Also, don’t make your whole site out of pages. You will slow things down. From https://ottopress.com/2010/category-in-permalinks-considered-harmful/ “Your site’s speed is linearly dependent on the number of Pages you have.”