Dashboard is fine – but Website says “This site is under development” ??

  • I just installed WordPress onto my iPage web server. I am in the dashboard and can do whatever I want to do in there so it appears to be running fine, but when I try to view my actualy website, I get a page with

    This site is under development
    This is a default template, indicating that the webmaster has not yet uploaded a Web site to the server.

    For information on how to build or upload a site, please visit your web hosting company’s site.

    I have been having this issue the entire time that I have been trying to use WordPress. I have my site hosted on iPage.com and I have done every step correctly according to the installation process. In fact, wordpress confirms that I have it successfully installed. I am able to log into wordpress from my iPage control panel and manage my webpage but it never shows.

    Why is this happening? I don’t see any other threads talking about this issue. One suggests to delete some index.html file but idk where that’s supposed to be because I know I don’t have one in my files (at least I’m pretty sure I don’t).

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  • Thread Starter peacefulskiescom

    (@peacefulskiescom)

    Aparrently it was a Home.html that was causing the problem. I have no idea why wordpress would have installed that in my file when all it did was cause problems. Now My about, contact, and other subpages come up at page not found :/

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    The Home.html file was installed by your hosting provider when your account was created.

    Try setting your permalink structure at Settings/Permalinks in your admin panel. If WordPress cannot automatically edit the .htaccess file, it will provide manual instructions after saving.

    I have the same problem. Yet, it still is not clear to me how to reset the permalinks. I get this explanation but it’s not clear where it leads to:

    If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    Ok, I’ll put my question again:
    – If I delete the home.html file, then I have the same problem as ‘peacefulskiescom’
    – So, I understand that I have to set the permalink structures.
    My question: how can I do this?
    I’m really looking forward to finally be able to start my blogsite. Could someone please help me on this? Thanks!

    you need to look in your root directory, where all the wordpress files are. usually html or public_html its your main directory when you look at your file structure on your host.

    You may look at your files using a ftp program, or a file manager if your host offers one.

    Do you have a file called .htaccess?

    If so, put the code WP gave you into that file. If not, creat a file with that code in it, and put it in the root directory and name it .htaccess

    how you do that depends on your host. I use godaddy, their file manager allows me to create files online directly in my file structure.

    If yours doesn’t allow that, you may need to use aplain text editor like notepad to make the file, then uplaod it to your server

    I found the fix. You have to get on your ipage control panel.
    1. Under the “Website” tab click “.htaccess editor”.
    2. Click Default Pages
    3. Go to Edit Default Index Page Settings.
    Where is says file name type in “index.php”
    Then “Add” and “Save”

    I checked my site after that and it was working finally. Yay!

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