WordPress as Home Page

Your wordpress install would optimally be in your root (maybe /public_html/) in order to function as “home”. It can be done elsewise, but there’s no real reason to make it more complicated than that.

And optimally, get a real ftp client instead of DW. Bunch of free ones around, cuteftp, filezilla….

Thank you for reply. I have WordPress located in the public_html directory, nothing else of mine, but it still doesn’t show as my home page.

Thanks re FTP provider. Did not know there were free ones around.

Maybe you need to change the urls in the database then. See a great tutorial here: https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

I don’t know if I am compounding my problems or getting rid of them. As I haven’t posted anything to my ‘blog’ as yet, I have deleted everything. I deleted WordPress, I deleted my backup files of my old site that my host performs. I deleted my old database (which didn’t really have anything in it. I deleted all and every indication of WordPress and my old site, cleared my host file manager directory files, and went back to what I thought was ‘ground zero’. Then I installed WordPress using my host’s ‘install’ button once again and . . .

Nothing. Nada. and now the login for the WordPress admin page keeps telling me that my session has expired, and it doesn’t accept the new user name, nor the old one.

Can’t go forward, and doesn’t appear like I am able to back neither. Anyway to get to a ‘fresh start’?

Just an update: First, would like to apoogise, as in rereading my last post I know it sounds like I didn’t pay any attention to what you were saying. I’d stop talking if I realized someone else wasn’t listening as well.

Update: I did check the phptutorial you suggested, and the url was as it was supposed to be. Then I read some posts on a thread concerning login to the Admin panel and they were talking about ‘Cookies” being a big problem, so I went to my files and deleted all the cookies that were there. Did not know you could accumulate so many.

Deleting the cookies (I think) resolved the problem of my visionary test page being my home page. I then decided to simply install another WordPress instead of trying to overwrite the one I had. I used an entirely new user name and password, and . . . voila! I can access WordPress through the login under the new user, and now when I type in my url, I get a directory listing.

It still isn’t as it ought to be, but it is now better than it was. Can you tell me how to get my blog page to show up as my home page instead of the directory of files?

Once again, if I offended through my last reply, I ask your forgiveness. It wasn’t that I wasn’t listening, I just too busy throwing everything in it and at it but the kitchen sink to make it work, instead of exercising the necessary patience to work out the real problem.

Nah…. don’t worry about it…. I just got back a bit ago, answered a couple of posts, saw yours on refresh. Takes folks a while sometimes to go do something, do something else, go back redo something, post again….

Glad you got it sorted, if you have other troubles, post back, ‘kay?

[Oh.. *idiot* Answer the IMPORTANT thing, hmmm? Sheesh…. goes away talking to self*

Ask your host to make sure they have index.php set up as a viable index page – that’s why you’re getting a list of files instead of a page display….]

Thanks. I will do that and let you know how it turns out.

issue resolved. My host does support index.php and so they went and performed the changes that were necessary on my side for me so that WordPress would show up as my home page. They did a redirect and notified my htaccess file, as well as giving me a tutorial on how to go about performing redirects myself from my own control panel.

Thank you for your help.

I’m glad to read you got this working. Redirect? Do you mean the list and order of file extensions that load in each directory?

Can you mark this issue “Resolved”? Thanks.

Re yr question “redirect?” I am not sure exactly. My old file directory was simply public_ftp and public_html. Now the directy also includes .filter, .gnupg, .panel, .vmailmgr, .qmail-contact, .qmail-daretode, and .qmail-default. And when I type in my url, I now get a ‘redirect’ from the file of directory listings, to the WordPress theme as my home page, with all the files, links and everything else working.

As I understand it, when I would type in my url, it would go to and old index page that I had declared to be my home page through Dreamweaver. They set up somehow that now, when I type in my url, it goes to daretodeclare.ca/WordPress1/

. . . and they changed whatever they needed to change in the .htaccess file to line up with whatever it had to line up with. I do not know much concerning these things, so I simply have to trust that they know what they are doing, as well as you, and all I know is that it now works fine. Thanks again for your help.