renwolf

Quick follow up, just because I personally hate loose ends.

It took one month and 8 correspondences with my web host customer services, but they finally resolved my original problem.

.php was added as a default to my website. That’s their wording, not mine. A default what, I don’t know, but whatever they did, it works. I no longer need to type “index.php” at the end of my url. No more Directory Listing Denied errors.

I look forward to finally being able to use WordPress on my website.

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(Apologies for dredging up an old thread.)

Thanks very much. Back to the host I go *fingers crossed*.

Is there any way to determine if the host is Windows IIS? Short of asking the host company, I mean.

Thanks for the reply. Am I trying to display a directory listing? All I know is I installed wordpress into a directory called leftunsaid on girlpaladin.com. I’m just trying to get girlpaladin.com/leftunsaid to work without having to type index.php.

I don’t see an .htaccess file either in the root of my website or in my wordpress directory. I tried creating one and first added the DirectoryIndex info and uploaded that to both places, first root, and when that didn’t work, the wordpress directory. Still no change that I could see, so I added the # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> section to the .htaccess file and uploaded that to the root. No change after that.

Is it possible that the root isn’t where I think it is? When I use FTP, I have to upload to /web/content. Is that not the root? I don’t have access to / or /web. My webspace provider doesn’t offer a control panel where I can change things like the directory index or default pages, although they do have phpmyadmin for database management.

Everything works if I manually type index.php, otherwise I get the Directory Listing Denied error. What else can I try on my end?

Thanks again for trying to help. I’m sorry if there’s a lot about all of this that I’m not understanding.