URL to Blog just brings up a file directory?

  • Am I doing something wrong? When the files were finished being installed and I “logged” in- all that came up was a file directory- not the nice layed out admin page that it talks about..is there another file I should be directing to?

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  • You should contact your host and encourage them to properly configure your web server to recognize index.php as a default page.

    if you have an .htaccess in the web_root of your your install.. (thats the directory wp-config.php is in), add the following to it (at the very top of the file), and see if this doesnt help:

    DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html index.php

    If the .htaccess is already there and you can see a similar line already in it, edit the line to include index.php

    If you simply dont have an .htaccess to look at, create one, and add that line.

    Thread Starter awarrick

    (@awarrick)

    I see the wp-config.php file but no .htaccess file. So to add one, do I use my ftp mgr? and do I literally save it as “.htaccess”? There’s no prefix or suffix?
    I did click on the “index” file and I got the blog up but it has some canned opening that says, “hello world”. Is that the blog main page?

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