getting “page cannot be displayed” on main page

  • I just installed wordpress on my server and it said everything was installed correctly. it gave me the login page and I entered the username and password and then I got a “page cannot be displayed”. So, I typed in https://pcbdaily.com/blog/wp-login.php, hoping that I could get something and I got “page cannot be displayed”. I noticed that as soon as I got the display error that the url in the address bar was now: https://pcbdaily.com/blog/wp-admin/, So I typed in index.php at the end of it and was given what looked like the main control panel for where I need to do my editing.

    I “signed out” and logged back in and was immediately directed to https://pcbdaily.com/blog/wp-admin/ and a page display error.

    Don’t know the resolution here, probably something simple, but I’m not too bright, so help would be greatly appreciated.

    In addition, when I got to pcbdaily.com/blog, I get the same “page cannot be displayed”. Yet when I type in pcbdaily.com/blog/index.php, I’m able to pull up the blog. I didn’t think that I’d have to type in index.php, am I wrong?

    Thanks in advance for the help, and I apologize in advance for the dumb questions. ??

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  • You need to setup index.php as a default or index file. With some hosts, you can do that via a control panel thingy, otherwise just contact your hosting provider.

    Thread Starter pcbdaily

    (@pcbdaily)

    thanks Handy, I couldn’t find anything like that, but I’m waiting on my hosting provider to responsd to a trouble ticket.

    Thanks again.

    does anyone else know where I could look for this setting?

    There’s no setting that *you* could find to do it yourself – it has to be set by your host.

    Unfortunately, you’re also on a Windows server, which means you can’t fix this with .htaccess. If you were running Linux or Unix (or had Apache installed on your server), then I could tell you how to do it yourself with a line of .htaccess code, but you don’t, so it would be ineffective. You’ll just have to wait to hear back from your host.

    There’s no setting that *you* could find to do it yourself – it has to be set by your host.

    Actually, it really depends on who your hosting provider is. Some will allow you different access….I provide it to all my clients.

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