Replacing original site with new WordPress theme

  • Resolved Darrin Pendley

    (@darrin-pendley)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    I have a church website that I am replacing. I am new to using WordPress. I have created a one page Under construction page that I want to display on the original URL. https://www.owingsmillscog.com while creating the new website. I am using Hostway as the hosting service. I have WordPress installed in the subdirectory of the root directory of owingsmillscog. I have followed the instructions in WordPress documentation by removing the /wordpress in settings from the URL to https://www.owingsmillscog.com. I have copied the index.php and .htaccess to the root directory and edited the index.php to include /wordpress so it knows to use the theme in the subdirectory /wordpress. I have done this multiple times and still have the same result. When I go to https://www.owingsmillscog.com, my original website still remains. Please help. This is becoming very frustrating. Thank you for any help you can provide.

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  • It doesn’t look like your old site is WordPress.

    It is probably using index.html or index.htm or default.html, etc. as the default page, and the server is most likely set to look for that page first (before index.php).

    Simply renaming those file(s) might do the trick. Be very cautious, though, unless you are confident with this. If you are unsure, check with your host for assistance.

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter Darrin Pendley

    (@darrin-pendley)

    Thank you Diana, I had to rename the index.htm in order for it to look at wordpress and the correct location.

    Diana Nichols

    (@diananichols)

    Glad I could help!

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