Main site not loading through index.php

Hi all,

I’ve done a search through the board and haven’t found a solution that resolved my problem, so I’d appreciate any help. I have an existing static site at https://www.ccc-connection.com. I want to run WP as a CMS. I’ve installed WP 2.9.1 at https://www.ccc-connection.com/fancy and am trying to set it up before I change the options for WP to control the root.

I can login into my admin area just fine (ccc-connection.com/fancy/wp-admin/), although, after logging in, the dir of https://www.ccc-connection.com/fancy/wp-admin/ is displayed, and I have to manually click the “index.php” to get to the admin panel (problem #1).

I can see my posts if I click on their direct links (e.g. https://www.ccc-connection.com/fancy/hello-world/ but the WP site/main index won’t load properly (problem #2). When I point my browser to the folder containing WP (/fancy/) the dir is listed.

I checked my /fancy/index.php file and this is what it contains

<?php
/**
 * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
 * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

/**
 * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
 *
 * @var bool
 */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>

This is what’s in my .htaccess file in the /fancy/ dir:

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

# END WordPress

I’ve reinstalled WP a few times, cleared the tables (or at least I thought I did), downgraded to 2.8.6 and upgraded to 2.9.1 through the admin auto upgrade. Still the same problem. There must be something else I’m missing.

Oh–the wp-blog-header.php is intact under /fancy/. Here’s what it contains:

<?php
/**
 * Loads the WordPress environment and template.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

if ( !isset($wp_did_header) ) {

	$wp_did_header = true;

	require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-load.php' );

	wp();

	require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/template-loader.php' );

}

?>

The theme is the Default theme.