"Under construction" page won't go away

  • Resolved gmatoka

    (@gmatoka)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    I uploaded WP to my ipage webost (www.rusinrodin.com) fine, no errors. I then pointed browser to the wp-admin/install.php, and everything went fine and control panel up. However whenever I go to visit my site, either from the control panel, a separate Chrome tab, and also an IE tab, the only thing that comes up is the “This website is under construction….” page. I cleared browser cache and same result. I made a test post and saved and published, but no difference, still “Under construction…”. What could be the issue, why am I not seeing the default 2014 theme?

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  • Looks like you haven’t updated your DNS records yet. Get the name servers from your webhosting provider (most likely it is there on a welcome email) and update them at your domain registrar (where you bought domain name from)

    Thread Starter gmatoka

    (@gmatoka)

    I “assumed” that iPage would hvae handled all of this as that’s where I purchased both the domain name and the hosting service. Looks like I need to bust their chops. Thanks for the info.

    Thread Starter gmatoka

    (@gmatoka)

    Well as it turned out, missing DNS entries was not the problem. The problem was a “home.html” file that iPage installs on all web hosts by default until the user installs their website. As a result, DNS finds the site fine, but then the host runs the home.html file instead of index.php, and home.html was responsible for displaying the “Under construction…” banner.

    As a suggestion to WordPress, they might want to include a suggestion in their installation instructions to look for a home.html file in their root directory and rename it before attempting to start their site.

    Again, thanks for the help.

    Glad to know that it got fixed.
    The default index.html file of your host was really misleading ??

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