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Alright, cleared out my root directory and re-installed and everything seems to be working properly!

Thanks so much for all the help!

Oops! Sorry that’s a copy/paste error.

Permalinks are set to https://nickgast.com/?p=123

I’m thinking starting from scratch would be easiest at this point. I’m just wondering if I should keep anything in my root directory (any files from my hosting service that I should never delete) or if I can just clear out everything?

I really appreciate all the help!

My permalink option is set to https://nickgast.com/wordpress/?p=123

Both the WP address and the site address are set to https://nickgast.com

and the front page displays are set to “Your latest posts”

When I go to nickgast.com it still takes me to nickgast.com/home and gives me the 404 error.

At this point, if we can’t find a fix, I’m starting to wonder what it would take to wipe everything clean from my server and just start fresh? I haven’t done any editing on the blog so I’m not losing any work, and I don’t mind re-installing everything.

I’m assuming I’d have to delete the MySQL I created with Network Solutions.

I’m just wondering what I should/shouldn’t delete from my root directory or if there’s anything else I should do? I know there were some files already in the directory before I installed wordpress. Is it necessary to keep those or can I just wipe everything clean?

Okay, I found the .htaccess file, backed it up, and deleted it on my web server.

My permalink settings were already set to the default, and when i went to nickgast.com it gave me the same 404 error as always.

I went back to my permalink settings and changed it to the “month and name” option (https://nickgast.com/2012/03/sample-post/) and now when I go to nickgast.com it still takes me to nickgast.com/home but now there is a blog there.

I’ve left the setting to “month and name” if you’d like to go to nickgast.com and see what I mean.

I’m not sure what you mean. I tried the redirect options at the links that Jan Dembowski supplied me and none of them worked.

It’s like even though I deleted the nickgast.com/home wordpress blog and uninstalled it, the redirect setting that I applied in the admin options of nickgast.com/home hasn’t/won’t go away.

No matter how many times I try to redirect with the current blog that’s housed in the root directory, it can’t override the redirect from my previous (and now nonexistent) blog.

The settings on my new, root blog are all correct in general settings.

I can’t go back to the old /home blog and change the settings because it is deleted.

I never created a redirect manually in code, I used the redirect option at
https://your-new-url/wp-admin/options-general.php.

When I had a blog installed at nickgast.com/home I told it to redirect nickgast.com to nickgast.com/home from the admin general settings.

When I uninstalled/deleted the home directory and blog, the redirect never went away.

Thanks for your patience!

I’m not sure exactly what you mean when you reference the “database” (sorry, super newbie!) but I’ll try to walk you through what I did.

I went to the network solutions management center and deleted my install from there, then went into my root and deleted the “home” directory that was created when I originally installed. Then I downloaded the .zip file from www.remarpro.com and installed a new blog manually in my root directory.

Again, I’m not exactly sure what you mean you talk about “database and tables”. I created a new MySQL and deleted the old one that the home directory blog was using if that has anything to do with it.

the new link is nickgast.com, which automatically redirects to the old link, nickgast.com/home, which no longer exists.

Those settings are correct for my current site.

The problem is I originally created a wordpress blog at a /home directory and was having my root url re-direct to this /home spot. I tried changing those settings at the old /home blog and it would still redirect. I uninstalled the /home blog and deleted the home directory from my FTP, but it’s still redirecting to /home whenever I type my url in. Even though all the settings on the root level are correct.