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No. I watched a youtube video and tried to take a shortcut to see if it would work. I never tried Steps 6 or 7

Please see the screencapture here: https://imgur.com/uhbIy0T

Left screen: redballtoportofino.com/wordpress
Right screen: redballtoportofino.com/wordpress/wp-login.php

Damn it. I just 404’d my site. I tried to remove the “/Wordpress” from the “WordPress Address (URL)” and I get an error when trying to get to my dashboard….

OK, I got to these steps, and now I have no idea what they mean.

6. Move your WordPress core files to the new location (WordPress address).

7. Copy (NOT MOVE!) the index.php and .htaccess files from the WordPress directory into the root directory of your site (Blog address). The .htaccess file is invisible, so you may have to set your FTP client to show hidden files. If you are not using pretty permalinks, then you may not have a .htaccess file. If you are running WordPress on a Windows (IIS) server and are using pretty permalinks, you’ll have a web.config rather than a .htaccess file in your WordPress directory. For the index.php file the instructions remain the same, copy (don’t move) the index.php file to your root directory. The web.config file, must be treated differently then the .htaccess file so you must MOVE (DON’T COPY) the web.config file to your root directory.

Ideas?

OK, I have figured out how to make the site un-blogged.

I have been watching youtube tutorials, and I can’t figure out how to make my website “live.” I have the https://www.redballtoportofino.com/Wordpress/ going fine, but i want it to just be https://redballtoportofino.com/ How can I do this?
Is it something within DreamHost?

For setting a static page as the front page, I don’t want it to be a blog at all. No comments or anything. Not a blog. It’s just going to be text and pictures, etc. Is that an option with WordPress?

For reference, this is the site I want to launch: https://www.redballtoportofino.com/

And the wordpress-installed via Dreamhost takes me here:
https://www.redballtoportofino.com/Wordpress/

OK thanks again for the help!

In the wordpress on the site, it looks like I have a blog? I don’t want that to be my format. I want to model it more like this site: https://crescentcuprally.com/

How can I cahnge the entire layout to be more like that?

OK, got that installed via Dreamhost.

Does this mean I can uninstall:
– WAMP
– WORDPRESS
– PHP

from my computer’s local drive?

I have no idea. I want to make a website, and host it at Dreamhost.

OK, got the WordPress folder under the www folder.

When I type in “localhost” into the search bar:
https://imgur.com/so0NVkJ

WAMP is located at: C:\Users\Chris\Desktop\wamp

WordPress files are located at: C:\Users\Chris\Desktop\wamp\Wordpress

Is that correct? What’s the next step?
(Thnks for the help, I am a Mechanical Engineer, and Computers and EE are the bane of my existence)

My apologies for not specifying. I am installing on Windows. I just installed WAMP, got it running in the background, and I still get the same error message when trying to open wp-admin/install.php.

I have hosting at DreamHost. Does that factor into this part of the process?