How to get a blog to come up when a site is accessed

If you would like for me to understand something you believe I am missing, you will have to state it clearly and give a specific example just like I am doing while showing you I cannot discover anything wrong anywhere.

There is nothing wrong now. That’s not, and has never been the issue. The issue is that one website, with WordPress URL businessbythebook.com/wp, goes to my blog on that site, whereas when I do the same setup with WordPress on a second site, WordPress URL tedsherwood.com/wp, it goes to a non-public page headed ‘Index…’ Why don’t they behave the same?

businessbythebook.com/wp lands at mtworld.com/wp with a 404 “Page Not Found” error, and tedsherwood.com/wp lands at a test post within that domain. I would guess the difference there has to do either with how .htaccess has been set up to handle errors at one location or the other or that it is not handling them at all and 404s are simply “falling through” to wherever (server default) at one location but not at another.

When a domain gets to a WordPress installation, index.php is what gets things started. At that point, there is more than one way for errors to be handled and it would seem your domains are not all set to do that in precisely the same way or ways.

WordPress is installed in tedsherwood.com. It is also still installed at tedsherwood.com/wp.

Had you planned to keep me in the dark forever there?!

Absolutely no intention of keeping anybody or anything in the dark. As I said in my first post, my level of knowledge is low, so I had no inkling that I wasn’t giving any information that was necessary in order to solve my issue.

Besides, my fourth post said that there were two installations, so I think there was some light on, especially for somebody who knew what they were doing and also had some empathy for people who didn’t know what they were doing.

especially for somebody who knew what they were doing and also had some empathy for people who didn’t know what they were doing.

How you can find the arrogance to say that after all the patience, time and effort I have displayed here is something that is finally beyond my feeble comprehension.

leejosepho, I’m sorry you feel that way. I do thank you for trying to help me, and reiterate that I have never intentionally kept you in the dark as you accuse. I carefully explained in my first post that I knew little, and most of your patience has been needed because you used language and concepts that were beyond me. Happy New Year.