First time installing via FTP

  • First time attempting to install WordPress with an FTP client and I can’t seem to get it quite right. I am using FileZilla with hosting space on websitesettings.com (https://vandykegroup.cltv8.com).

    The page that is being displayed currently is a index.html file that is in a sub directory that looks something like this:
    /
    +vandykegroup.cltv8.com
    lib
    logs
    ++web
    cgi-bin
    content
    –index.html

    So I naturally unpack the WordPress folder and install the main files into the /Web sub directory. Nothing but 403 and 404 errors. I followed the wp-config.php steps and set up my own directory with a username and password, too.

    Any clue what I could be doing wrong?

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    That would would seem to indicate you need htaccess sending the domain to index.php to start WordPress:

    # 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

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    I followed the wp-config.php steps and set up my own directory with a username and password, too.

    wp-config would have nothing to do with password protection of a directory. That info is about the SQL database name, user and password at the server.

    Thread Starter andrewhumme

    (@andrewhumme)

    Thanks for the reply.

    So I added the .htaccess file.. do I leave it in the /Web sub directory that the index.html file is being pulled from? Then just dump the WordPress files into that same directory? I did that and I am getting an internal server error.

    I will do what I can to try to help, but I have no experience with sub-domains with your type of URL.

    Here is your Primary Domain: ‘https://www.whois.com/whois/cltv8.com&#8217;.

    That means ‘vandykegroup.’ is a sub-domain.

    The htaccess I posted should be in the folder containing ‘cltv8.com’. Then if ‘vandykegroup’ is the foldername for your sub-domain located within the folder for your Primary Domain, the ‘vandykegroup’ htaccess would be this:

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

    edit: I should have noticed that difference earlier, so please forgive me there. Also, you might have some database updating to do for the sub-domain.

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