Transferring to new server, website not working

  • Resolved Tarissa

    (@tarissa)


    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hi! I’ve just transferred my site to a new server and host.

    I followed the instructions for “Changing Your Domain Name and URLs” on this page: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

    Now that I’m finished, I only get a white “Index of /” page showing up, with the entire directory of files I uploaded from the previous website. How do I get the website to actually appear?

    Although the instructions on that page (above) didn’t tell me to install WordPress on the new server before uploading the files… should I have done that?

    Here’s the new website I’m working on, so you can see the issue: https://cfcba.com/

    Any help on the subject would be greatly appreciated!!

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    It looks like you forgot to copy over the main index.php file.

    If you don’t have the original anymore, you can get a new one from a fresh download: https://www.ads-software.com/download/

    Thread Starter Tarissa

    (@tarissa)

    Thanks, that helped a bunch, as I did have a conflicting issue with the index.php earlier.

    However, now that I uploaded the file, I have a new problem. This code is the only thing showing up on the website now:

    <?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( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wp-blog-header.php' );

    Any ideas?

    See here: https://cfcba.com/

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Contact your hosting provider and ask them to make sure that PHP is installed and running on the server.

    Thread Starter Tarissa

    (@tarissa)

    Thanks, James! I got it all sorted out now.

    Happy as a clam tonight.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    You’re welcome!

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