wordpress installed via host supremeserver, but then problem

  • Hi, I get the page all made, then I go to admin and try to switch the URL for the homepage to the new wordpress page, but it doesn’t work. I delete my old index homepage and try again, but this time what shows up online is a list of all the files in my website, rather than the new wordpress blog homepage. What am I doing wrong?

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  • Is Wp installed in a subdirectory? And you want it to appear as the main page in root?
    If yes, see this tutorial:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    Thread Starter kiersten

    (@kiersten)

    no, wp is installed in the main directory along with all other files. Should it be in a subdirectory?

    No, it can be either way.
    If WP is installed in the root then you should see your blog here:
    https://kmareka.com/index.php
    However it isn’t there – which means you have deleted the WP index.php file. The one that has 4-5 lines, the “sweet and short”.
    You may also be aware that having an index.html file (as you have now) in the root it will always display that one first: .html index usually takes precedence over the .php index. If you want your blog to display at root, i.e. at
    https://kmareka.com/ – you will have to:
    – re-upload the original WP index file
    – delete or rename the index.html

    Or it could mean that the host doesn’t have .php set as a default index document.

    -tg

    Actually it seems to be a bigger problem ??
    Typing this in the address bar https://kmareka.com/index.php gets an almost blank page with only the domain name.
    Same thing if I try to access for example the default stylsheet:
    https://kmareka.com/wp-content/themes/default/style.css

    (these host-installed things are very often a screwed up…)

    Thread Starter kiersten

    (@kiersten)

    My startup blog page is here:

    https://kmareka.com/WordPress

    I would like to try going in to admin and make the URL homepage the blog page, but now it is not letting me in with the username “admin” and password that I created earlier.

    1. Which means your install is NOT in the root but in a subdirectory called “WordPress”
    2. You do not “create” the password, but you use the one given to you during the install process, step 2.
    3. If you’ll manage to get in, turn back to my first reply – that’s the method you should use to get what you want.
    (nice full circle, LOL)

    Thread Starter kiersten

    (@kiersten)

    I have the “short and sweet” file. Here is where it says it is:

    /home//www/kmareka.com/WordPress/index.php

    Must be the path is invalid because of the “home” part and the “wordpress” part. Not sure how to fix this. Maybe I should delete the whole thing and start over again, but I have already done that a few times and this is where I get stuck.

    See 3. above, Go, read the tutorial and make the necessary changes as described there.

    (And just for the record: if something is in a directory called “WordPress” – that thing is not in the main directory ??

    Thread Starter kiersten

    (@kiersten)

    I don’t think I need a separate directory. I will tr again another day. babies need attention

    If you know better, why are you asking for help?

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