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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.

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.

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

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.

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’?

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.

hello . . . another newbie, as you can tell by the name (any info on how to change it wld be much appreciated). I have set up a theme, with a stylesheet using Dreamweaver 8 and it looks to me like the codes are in place to link the stylesheet to the index.html page. Everything is in a folder named dare_themes in WordPress1/wp_content/themes/dare_theme, but I keep getting the message that the stylesheet is missing. I haven’t begun to add any plug-ins or php codes or anything else. I am learning as I go, one step at a time, and the first one is to get my theme to show up. Any advice? –I have checked some of the other forums concerning this, but they say ‘resolved’ so I don’t think I can post there, but I have done some of the things that they have suggested but they haven’t resolved my problem.

Hello . . . another newbie (as you can tell by the name ~ any info on how to change it would be much appreciated). I am having the same problem – theme installed but I keep getting a message that the stylesheet is missing. I have checked everything I can . . . the link to the stylesheet is in the index.html page. The files are in a folder in WordPress, wp content, themes, as dare_theme. I cannot see the problem. I haven’t set up any of the plug ins, links or php’s yet ~ a step at a time, learn as I go. But do not want to go any further until I get my theme in place first. Any insight?