New install — No homepage

  • I’m new to wordpress, starting fresh. Created MySQL db, v5, host = 1and1. FTP uploaded latest WordPress to root directory of https://www.mysite.com. The install goes perfect and i can choose from the default themes (2010 or 2011). Things seem great from the WordPress admin pages.

    But when I visit https://www.mysite.com I get a page-not-found error. I’ve already deleted all, and reinstalled, even deleted the db and re-created, started from scratch, etc. Same error. When I try to type https://www.mysite.com/index.php I get same result. HOWEVER i tried re-naming the file to index000.php — then when i type that file-address in manually, it FINDS and displays the page! When i rename it back to index.php, it goes back to page-not-found. I don’t know what this might mean. I’ve been searching the forums all afternoon/evening, finding lots of similar posts and lots of good ideas, but nothing I tried is solving my problem yet. I just need it to find a home page. I appreciate any attention.

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  • Sounds like a .htaccess file issue. Try recreating it, or removing it and reconfiguring permalinks Using_Permalinks.

    Go to settings->General here put you site address in (wordpress address url) and (site url) field. This is not permalinks issue, i have face this problem, when i was new to wordpress.

    Thread Starter Scottb13

    (@scottb13)

    Thanks to you both for the posts. @jevets, I tried creating a blank .htaccess file and uploading it to the root dir. But still no home page. Did i do that right? As for permalinks, I tried selecting a different (non-default) setting but that didn’t help yet either, I didn’t see any documentation on “reconfiguring permalinks” so that’s all i tried there so far.

    @ub i already have the correct url in the general settings (www.site.com) and i even tried putting the exact file path there (.com/index.php) but page is still not found. (That lead to other problems accessing my WP Dashboard, so I backed out of that direct-file-path approach.)

    I dont know if this is a wordpress glitch or a database glitch with my host/server (1and1). Not sure what direction to go. Any other ideas?

    How about a URL to your site?

    After you save permalinks, check the .htaccess file to see if it’s empty or if there’s something in it. If it’s not empty, post the contents of it here.

    Thread Starter Scottb13

    (@scottb13)

    url https://www.scottbdesign.com

    contents of .htaccess file:
    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    Looks like it’s all working perfectly. I’m not getting a page not found error, I’m seeing the blog home page, just like a fresh install should be.

    Try clearing your browser cache, restarting the browser, viewing it in a different browser, etc.

    Thread Starter Scottb13

    (@scottb13)

    Wow. Once I cleared browser cache it came right up. Never occurred to me that could happen, or to try something so obvious as another browser. Thanks for everything, i’ll go hide now.

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