bigworldstudio

Thanks Whooami!
Based on your response I figured out the my first extraction of the zip file was missing a bunch of documents and some sub-folders (including the wp-admin/includes sub-folder. Don’t know what happened but it’s fixed now.

Have a great weekend!

In case anyone finds this thread and has a similar problem, my solution was to uninstall and reinstall WordPress. I believe I was overzealous in deleting files from the root folder trying to get rid of the “Under Construction” page. With a bit more patience and a re-install, the problem was fixed.

Thanks HandySolo for trying to help.

I installed WordPress in my root folder because I want to use it for the entire site – not just a sub domain. When the site wasn’t showing up, the host service tech suggested that I move the index.php file out of the wordpress folder (not sure which one it came from)into the root folder.

At this point, I’m wondering if there’s a way to start over. If there’s a way to start fresh, it might be easier than trying to fix it.

I don’t know php language, but this might be helpful in troubleshooting. Here is the code from the index.php in the root folder:

[Moderated: Too much code. Please consider placing the code in a text file on your site with a link here -or- use a pastebin service such as https://wordpress.pastebin.ca. Thanks!]

Well, I just got my hand slapped for also posting this question (with more information) in the installation forum. Since no one responded to my initial question I thought maybe I had posted it in the wrong section. I hope someone can help. Thanks.

Any ideas?