domain show wp site after uninstall?!

  • Okay, I’m new to this and not yet immersed in the lingo so bear with me;

    Just installed the wordpress script to my host, tried to make a simple site, gave up and uninstalled it again.

    For some reason, the site “www.gayatree.org” shows a default wordpress theme.

    The site “www.gayatree.org/index” where I originally installed the WP script shows “Directory has no index file.” message.

    Can someone please help me activate a simple wordpress template on the gayatree.org site? If I must re-install, how can I do so without adding another directory?

    many thanks in advance,
    m

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  • I’m not sure what the problem is. You should be able to login to your site via https://www.gayatree.org/wp-login.php Once logged in, you can navigate to Appearance -> Themes -> Install Themes to add 1 or more new themes.

    Thread Starter maria hugs

    (@maria-hugs)

    Thanks for the response, let me give this another try;

    My host is iPage. TO set up my site I first installed WP to the directory /index. After several hours, I was able to get a simple page up and running at gayatree.org/index. But then I noticed a generic WP theme was displayed at gayatree.org, which is where I obviously prefer to have my site!
    I decided to uninstall the WP script and start all over, but after the uninstall I noticed the generic WP site is still displayed at gayatree.org.
    Question: How did it get there and how to I access it to configure my own content? If I try to re-install the WP script I am forced to specify a directory, which then changes the URL. I prefer to have the simple .org URL without an added directory.

    I’ve already spent a few days with this madness so your help is greatly appreciated!

    Have you tried asking your hosts about this?

    A few things:

    * It’s generally best not to install wordpress into a directory – especially a directory named index (index.php is one of the main pages in a wordpress install)
    * After you uninstall WP on your server, make sure you dump the cache in your web browser / refresh your browser. It also make take a few minutes for the server to show the changes you’ve made on it.
    * When WP is installed it automatically loads a generic theme. You can change it latter on.

    Hope that helps.

    Thread Starter maria hugs

    (@maria-hugs)

    thanks, will do..

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