Arlette M. Garcia

Hello again dragonsjaw OK I found that my host has a Control Panel, I opened the file manager and I can see my files in there. So I started to follow the directions that Esmi posted. I went so far as #3. #4 says to copy the index.php and .htaccess files from the WordPress directory into the root directory-my question is where do I go to find this? in the control panel/file manager? because I cannot find anything on the WordPress. Thanks.

Ok esmi and dragonsjaw I am going to try all your suggestions Thank you! and I will keep you posted!

dragonsjaw-No I don’t want my ‘old site’ to remain live. I am not an expert with the Control Panel, but I can learn or follow very specific instructions. Exactly I want people to go to arlumizudesigns.com and get my new WP site. Thanks. How do I make that happen?

WPyogi thanks for all your suggestions.

WPyogi Thank you for your suggestion. I don’t want to use WordPress.Com. I thought this was something that was easier to handle and I thought I could do it myself! So far I am proud that I was able to download WordPress and I was able to built my website, now the only thing left to do is making it go live! Thought it was an easier process.

Thank you but I am still lost. I didn’t do my old website so I would not know where the “home page of my old site was uploaded to”. Where do I look for this, would it be in my Hosting site under Domain Central? I’ve been reading other posts to see if anyone has had the same problem, but the more I read, the more complicated I find it to understand. Is there any hope to have my new WordPress go live! I am running a home based business and of course it’s imperative that I have a website where I can update my products, texts etc. Thanks.

I am reading these instructions below and they are not too clear to me. Sorry I am not an expert. I am not familiar with “index.php” or “.htaccess files”. I don’t quite understand when they say to copy to “root directory”. Is that on my Domain Central? I don’t have a blog address. I called my new wordpress: arlumizudesigns.com/wordpressbuilder; and my old website is arlumizudesigns.com. I am not familiar at all with codes or html. Also what are “pretty permalinks”? and FTP? Is it possible that you can help me understanding these instructions a bit easier? Thank you so much.

Copy (NOT MOVE!) the index.php and .htaccess files from the WordPress directory into the root directory of your site (Blog address). The .htaccess file is invisible, so you may have to set your FTP client to show hidden files. If you are not using pretty permalinks, then you may not have a .htaccess file. If you are running WordPress on a Windows (IIS) server and are using pretty permalinks, you’ll have a web.config rather than a .htaccess file in your WordPress directory. As stated above, copy (don’t move) the index.php file to your root directory, but MOVE (DON’T COPY) the web.config file to your root directory.
8. Open your root directory’s index.php file in a text editor
9. Change the following and save the file. Change the line that says:
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
to the following, using your directory name for the WordPress core files:
require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);
10. Login to the new location. It might now be https://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/
11. If you have set up Permalinks, go to the Permalinks panel and update your Permalink structure. WordPress will automatically update your .htaccess file if it has the appropriate file permissions. If WordPress can’t write to your .htaccess file, it will display the new rewrite rules to you, which you should manually copy into your .htaccess file (in the same directory as the main index.php file.)

My old website is in html (it was done by someone else).

I am very sorry for “Hijacking” anothers thread. I didn’t realized I was doing this. Like I said I am “New” is this forum thing. Wasn’t sure how it works, so I just posted a question. Well, I am sure it won’t happen again. I am not an impolite person at all. Thank you for letting me know.

Hi everyone, new to this forum. I would like to know the following: I already have a website live, and I’ve been working on my new word press.org website, which now is ready to go live; and what I want to know is how to publish my new word press website. I want the old website to go away, and viewers to see the new one. Can anyone PLEASE give me the steps that I need to follow to do this change? Thanks so much!