CAN NOT GET ANY OF THE PAGES TO WORK! – PLEASE HELP!

Did it install successfully?

Can you login to the Admin bit successfully?

What happens when you try to create a page? What errors appear?

Im sure there is nothing wrong with the instalation…It me. WP is totsl gibberish to me no matter how many tutorials I read. Its just so different from HTML. I write a page-I put a link into it and all I get is e.g.The requested URL /about/ was not found on this server.

Do you have a copy online that we could view?

Have you created the .htaccessfile to allow a page like ?page_id=2 to be ‘redirected’ to /about/ ?

You see I have no idea what you just asked. Would it help if I told you I’m Blonde?…alas

you can view the site on wwww.benmurnane.com/index.php

Hehe.

Try creating a file called ‘.htaccess’, add this code:

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

then upload it to the ‘root’ directory.

I’m already lost. What do I write it with?

You don’t need to know PHP to create a page if the installation is good. Just “write”->”page” and that should do the trick.

[edit]: Ignore me. My IE hang and you’ve had a whole discussion before my post was added to the thread.

You can use Notepad. Just open Notepad, place the code in and save the file as ‘.htaccess’. Don’t save it as a Text file.

Then upload it to your main ‘root’ directory on the server(sometimes called ‘htdocs’).

Gangleri, if you test out the site, you’ll see it’s trying to use the ReWriteEngine but its failing.
Perhaps ‘mod_rewrite’ is not enabled on your host. But please upload the file and test anyway.

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

I seem to have one – should i overwrite it?

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName benmurnane.com
AuthUserFile /home/benmurna/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/benmurna/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

I think you could add to it.

Just download the file and add my code to the end of it.

Let me know how you get on.

IT WORKED!!!!
You’re a star I wish I could buy you a virtual beer and give you a virtual slap on the back!!! Aaaaaaaarrgh I’ve not relieved…I would have been tapping my 100th pages no result. I hope I can coun’t on you to get me out of the weeds sometime soon again (by the looks of things) ;o)

PS Sorry for typos…too excited to type

Heheh great to hear.
Yeh sure, any problems just pop in and I/others will be glad to help ??

Virtual Guinness sounds good heh. I’m just over on the West coast of Scotland so if you’ve got a good aim ??

Well I’m in Dublin, right next to the Guinness factory – Pint coming right up! :o) I’ve already found new exciting problems to solve…but I have to dash to work now.Thanks again