New user and I am totally stuck.

  • Hello –

    I have registered a domain name etc. with ipage. I have installed WordPress and selected a theme. I can’t for the life of me have it show up under the domain name etc. I have selected activate theme but it only appears when I view “sample page”. Obviously I missing the most basic of steps can some please help? Maybe I do not understand the hierarchy etc.

    Thanks!

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  • Hi ifrydr,

    Can you supply us with the domain in question so we can test ourself?

    What do you see when you go to yourdomain?

    Many hosts include a landing page, named something similar to index.html, that says “Website coming soon”. If you’re seeing something similar to this, then their landing page may be overriding the WordPress index.php file and loading first. What you’ll want to do is check if this is the case, and if so, remove the index.html file they’ve included with your account.

    Site url?

    Thread Starter ifrydr

    (@ifrydr)

    https://www.arxmanagement.com/

    Since I am new to the ipage thing as well I am trying to figure out where all of the files etc. are…

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter ifrydr

    (@ifrydr)

    OK… Now I think I really broke it as I deleted a file from the root in the File Manager…

    It looks like your either missing your index.php file or the server isn’t set up to use it. Try grabbing index.php from a new WordPress download and upload it to your root directory (where WordPress is installed). If your index.php file exists and is fine you can try adding:

    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

    to the top of your .htaccess file. If you don’t have an .htaccess file yet, you can just make a text file with that line in it, upload it, then rename it to .htaccess.

    Edit: Was the file you deleted part of WordPress? If it was, you can just upload a new copy of it.

    Thread Starter ifrydr

    (@ifrydr)

    Trying a removal and re-install etc. right now…

    Maybe to at least get back to my original issue..

    Thanks!!

    Thread Starter ifrydr

    (@ifrydr)

    Ok… So, now I have something showing up here:

    https://www.arxmanagement.com/sample-page/

    But i want a different theme and want it to point to here:

    https://www.arxmanagement.com

    Edit: Activated new theme and that now appears on …/sample-page/ but still want to get to https://www.arxmanagement.com.

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

    # END WordPress

    You have the normal home page showing at https://www.arxmanagement.com. Are you asking about making the Sample Page your front page?

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

    If you want to use a different theme, just switch to it after installing.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Themes

    Thread Starter ifrydr

    (@ifrydr)

    OK… not sure what I just did but I think it might be there now…

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