Themes not loading ~ CPanel Issues

  • Resolved kb04090

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    14 years, 9 months ago

    I had a lot of trouble installing word press on a web host which did not already have it there. Once I finally got it installed (didn’t install user properly in C-panel) the themes were not showing. No matter what theme I selected, I got an unformatted page AND trying to pull up websitename.com/wp-content/themes gave a 404 error.

    After looking around this site a long time, I found this page:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_WordPress#Common_Installation_Problems

    Way down near the bottom is a list of RESOURCES. This one saved the day:

    How to Install WordPress 2.7 through Cpanel video tutorial

    The root of my problems was unzipping the wordpress files on my computer and then ftp-ing them to the server. Instead, the video shows how to properly set up the database and user in C-panel AND upload the zipped file to your sever and unzip/extract it there.

    Deleted all files from the server, retaining my wp-config.php file. After the files were extracted, I uploaded the wp-config.php file. Using this method made all the files extract with the proper permission codes. Themes are loading … and all is well in my world.

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