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Thanks for the quick response.

Not sure, but you nailed it anyway! Bulk edit, one page at a time. 36 pages of posts to go then.

Hosting provider’s response: “Because according to our System Administrator, if there is an issue with the server and to the hosting with us, you should not be able to access the site on your computer. Considering that accessing the site using your computer is working fine but not on your phone, then that phone might have been the problem. Because if there is an issue with your site and your hosting with us, then we could not access your site at all. From our end, everything is just fine, even if we use different phones – your site is just accessible.”

Just checked again. Two different brand phones, different Android versions, two different browsers, all data cleared first, gives the same Privacy warning. Checked on both WiF and data, so not the ISP.

Mystery.

Not sure what a TLD is, but I will try and explain what I’ve got and what I want.

I’ve got one website, businessbythebook.com.au which is built using a WordPress theme. The URL for the WordPress installation is, according to the software that installed it, Softaculous, businessbythebook.com.au/wp. When somebody types in https://www.businessbythebook.com.au they are taken to my blog page in that site.

I’ve got another website, tedsherwood.com, which is using, so far, the default WordPress theme. I have two installations of WordPress for this site. The first one was a duplication of the one that worked for the first website: URL, tedsherwood.com/wp. But when somebody typed in the website address, https://www.tedsherwood.com, up came ‘Index…’, ie. not the WordPress page. Problem.

So my host installed WordPress again, this time with a URL of tedsherwood.com. That is, without the /wp. Then it worked for the public, ie. when they typed in tedsherwood.com, up came the default WordPress template.

My original question for the forum was: why didn’t tedsherwood.com/wp at installation produce the same result as businessbythebook.com.au/wp at installation?

leejosepho, I’m sorry you feel that way. I do thank you for trying to help me, and reiterate that I have never intentionally kept you in the dark as you accuse. I carefully explained in my first post that I knew little, and most of your patience has been needed because you used language and concepts that were beyond me. Happy New Year.

Absolutely no intention of keeping anybody or anything in the dark. As I said in my first post, my level of knowledge is low, so I had no inkling that I wasn’t giving any information that was necessary in order to solve my issue.

Besides, my fourth post said that there were two installations, so I think there was some light on, especially for somebody who knew what they were doing and also had some empathy for people who didn’t know what they were doing.

Thanks Lyle.

No, two websites, quite separate but with the one hosting company (Nerdster).

The URL for WordPress on the first site – seen via ‘Softaculour – Edit Detail in cPanel – says businessbythebook.com.au/wp.

When I make the URL for WordPress on the second site tedsherwood.com/wp, I don’t get the same result when I access the website.

On the first site it goes to my blog, on the second it goes to a page that is not part of the blog, but has only three lines, beginning with ‘Index…’.

I am happy with the way the first site is working, so wanted to duplicate that with the second site. But it didn’t work. (It works now because WordPress is installed in tedsherwood.com. It is also still installed at tedsherwood.com/wp.

There is nothing wrong now. That’s not, and has never been the issue. The issue is that one website, with WordPress URL businessbythebook.com/wp, goes to my blog on that site, whereas when I do the same setup with WordPress on a second site, WordPress URL tedsherwood.com/wp, it goes to a non-public page headed ‘Index…’ Why don’t they behave the same?

See my fourth post above.

Thanks Tara. Since you seem to know what you are talking about, can I ask you to also answer my earlier post, ‘How to get a blog to come up when a site is accessed?’

Hi Tara. Yes, I read this. But this doesn’t say, as you imply, that installation in the root directory is the answer. Step 4 says that one needs to decide between the root directory and a sub-directory. So I’m afraid my question remains: what are the consequences of one location over the other?

I’m sorry that my English misled you. I will try again.

I have two websites.

When I install WordPress on each identically, that is, both with URLs of (website name)/wp they don’t behave the same way for the public. On the first one the website comes up when somebody types in its name, whereas on the second a backend page with ‘Index, wp….’ comes up.

What might be causing them to work differently?

Yes, I can cure the issue by installing WordPress in (website name) rather than (website name)/wp but I would prefer to have them both in a directory of their own.

I appreciate that you are trying to help, but we appear to be going round in circles. You’ve asked me again whether I have a problem. Yes, I do, and it is as I have stated twice above. See my original post.

OK.
businessbybook.com.au: wp-config.php is in /home/business public_html.
tedsherwood.com: wp-config.php is in /home/tedsherw public_html.
i.e. the same.
Or at least that’s one of them – remember I have two installations, one in tedsherwood.com and one in tedsherwood.com/wp.

Now what do I do?

Sorry, but I don’t understand much of this, but if you tell where to go to check what you are saying, I could do that.

PS The second site works now, because Nerdster reinstalled WordPress in tedsherwood.com rather than tedsherwood.com/wp.