maginrose

Following on from the previous posts I have checked through all the steps again. I can confirm that if I put an html index page on my site then that works – what I can’t do is to install WordPress. I have filled in all the information on the congig file and uploaded the whole, unzipped WordPress directory onto my website under https://www.maginrose/web/content but when I then try to open a page https://www.maginrose.com/web/content/wp-admin/install.php or https://www.maginrose.com/web/content/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php I just get a message saying the link is broken. I have also tried moving the contents of the WordPress directory into the main ‘content’ directory as well as leaving them in the WordPress directory, neither strategies has worked.

If I delete my index.html page then I get a 403 error message which suggests to me that my site isn’t recognising any php files – but I don’t know what to do about this. My host ‘Laughing Squid’ indicates that it is php compatable and my MySQL is set to PHP 5, I am really at a loss as to how to proceed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I’m sorry, do you mean my domain name? This is https://www.maginrose.com or do you mean a different URL?

Actually, ignore that last bit of the previous post – I have two files called wp-admin, one directly under WordPress and one under wp-content.

Yes. It’s in a sub-directory. web/content. I checked with my host (Laughing Squid) and there shouldn’t be a problem with the page being index.php. Should the web-admin file be immediately under ‘WordPress’? Currently is is under wp-content?

I have found the instructions for the 403 forbidden error message but the menu ‘Web options’ is not an available option on my Control Panel. Is this definitely referring to the websitesettings Control Panel?

Thank you – I hadn’t noticed that these weren’t WordPress. Now I’m getting a 403 forbidden message – but I remember seeing some instructions for dealing with this, I will see if I can find them.