Can’t access website or admin

  • Please help a beginner! I can access my “splash” page from the browser (FF and IE), but nothing else on my website (www.fbcmcdonough.com). The index page is:

    https://www.fbcmcdonough.com/fbcnew/index.php

    but that page is blank, as is wp-admin, wp-content, etc.

    I can see everything in FileZilla (FTP), but what have I done to wipe out access to everything?

    Did I mention I’m a beginner? Thanks for your help, friends!

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  • It’s hard to guess, but it seems like you may have uploaded the rest of the files to the wrong directory?

    For instance, I’ve made the mistake of uploading a folder instead of opening it and uploading the individual files inside the folder.

    Check your wp-config file for empty spaces. There should be nothing before the starting <?php (at the top) and nothing after the closing ?> (at the bottom)

    Check plugins for the same thing.

    Thread Starter cathyfbc

    (@cathyfbc)

    And where is the “wp-config” file?

    In the root folder.

    Thread Starter cathyfbc

    (@cathyfbc)

    By “root” folder, I’m guessing you mean the one (on my system) called “fbcnew”, under public_html? (Since I don’t have a folder called “root” ?? )

    At any rate, I can’t find a file called “wp-config”. Can you possibly be more specific as to where to look? I apologize for asking questions that must seem extremely simple for you, but I took over the maintenance of the already-created-and-in-place website, and am still not sure how it all works. (WordPress isn’t near as easy as FrontPage!)

    <<(WordPress isn’t near as easy as FrontPage!)<<

    Ha!

    That gave me a giggle.

    Okay, the “root” folder is just what it sounds like: your public root. Usually where your main “index” file is located – the root is the base directory for your site. So wherever the “wordpress” files are located would be the WordPress root. wp-config.php would be there.

    You should acces your root folder with your ftp programme.
    After connecting you’ll find all folder/ files of WordPress.

    just saying… even though I think this has already been mentioned.. there is no file at
    https://www.fbcmcdonough.com/fbcnew/wp-config.php
    so I think the wp_config.php file should be in the fbcnew folder instead of what I think is meant by root, the main directory.

    DONT MIND ME HERE sorry wrong info and just accident don’t even notice this is here.

    Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php

    Thread Starter cathyfbc

    (@cathyfbc)

    <<(WordPress isn’t near as easy as FrontPage!)<<

    Ha!

    That gave me a giggle <<

    At least it has a simple drag and drop navigation tree to set up my site navigation! Very easy for someone who doesn’t know HTML or CSS. ??

    Thanks so much for your help, friends!. I found my wp-config.php file! It was actually in the fbcnew directory after all. ?? Following is what it contains (nothing before <? or after ?>):

    <?php
    // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘fbcmcd_fbcmcd’); // The name of the database
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘fbcmcd_user’); // Your MySQL username
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘++++++++’); // …and password
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

    // You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
    $table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

    // Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
    // chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
    // For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’
    // to enable German language support.
    define (‘WPLANG’, ”);

    /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

    define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__).’/’);
    require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);
    ?>

    Thread Starter cathyfbc

    (@cathyfbc)

    oops, and I see I just posted my username and password for the world to see! I just replaced my password in previous post with +++++.
    Cathy

    Your wp-config file looks fine. Check your server error logs.

    Actually, you may want to check with your host. While checking the blog viewing live HTTP headers I get a 500 Internal Server Error.

    I don’t know if you have your databases configured yet, but try this. I’m using Windows and FrontPage also.

    1) Unzip WordPress to your local hard drive.
    2) Rename the WordPress directory to something else
    3) On your local copy of WordPress, edit your wp-config.php file
    4) Open up Explorer or My Computer (whichever is easier for you) and navigate to where you have unzipped wordpress. Minimize Explorer ore move the widnow out of the way
    5) Start up FrontPage and connect to your site
    6) Switch to the view where you can see the folders on your site (this may be the default)
    7) Cool trick… bring your Explorer window back into view and then click-and-drag the WordPress folder from your local drive to your FrontPage site. You’re going form window to window.
    8) It might take a few minutes to copy all the files
    9) Test your site… fingers crossed

    Hope this helps,
    /*Raj*/

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