temporary start page is still up

A link would be very helpful.

https://www.goingforthephd.com

thanks alot for the help samboll!

ahhh… ok
FTP to your root and delete or rename the index.html or default.html.
Your server is looking for .html 1st. When you delete or rename the index.html it will pull the WP index.php.
After doing this, when you go to your site do a hard refresh on your browser
Ctrl + F5 on keyboard at same time.

do I need to add an index.php page. That’s what I did and it brings up a blank page now.

I noticed there is an index.php page in the wp-admin folder that is about 500 bytes or so. I tried moving that to my root folder which gave me an error that basically said it couldn’t find the index.php file in the admin folder.

I also tried copying and pasting the index.php file in the admin folder to put in the root folder as well but my ftp client did not allow that

Randomly moving files around when you don’t know what your doing is almost never a good idea. What you needed to do was delete the files samboll listed…. what you need to do now is put everything back as it was (but with the previously mentioned files deleted).

If you can’t remember what you moved/deleted/overwrote then you will need to delete all the existing files and reinstall.

I went and re-installed and lo and behold there was in index.php page uploaded to my root folder. Thanks for the tip obscure, my wordpress is working on my cite now

Glad it worked. Happy blogging.