Installed Wordpress myself, now getting error message

[granger99]

Hello, I installed Wordpress but now when I go to the URL of my site, I get the following page:
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Index of /
* cgi-bin/
* images/
* postinfo.html
* wordpress/
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Furthermore, when I try to log in, I get a 404 error page from X10 hosting. What's strange is that when I initially installed Wordpress, I got that nice page showing my blog title and all that. Then I changed the password in the Settings area and all went to hell in a handbasket! Can anyone help? THANK YOU!

 

[Gouri]

You have to put a redirect to your wordpress folder.

Goto cpanel and click on redirects

Select the domain set to http://yourdomain.com/wordpress

Furthermore, when I try to log in, I get a 404 error page from X10 hosting. What's strange is that when I initially installed Wordpress, I got that nice page showing my blog title and all that. Then I changed the password in the Settings area and all went to hell in a handbasket! Can anyone help? THANK YOU!

When you are getting 404 page. where you are trying to login. Can you give little description.

It appears to be you installed the wordpress has got the problem with domain name. Did you installed the wordpress using the same domain .

Or another domain. And when you are changing the settings did you changed the url of the site?

 

[Zubair]

You are opening http://yoursite.x10hosting.com
and seeing this message.

your wordpress url is http://yoursite.x10hosting.com/wordpress

You can change it to main domain by moving files from wordpress folder to public_html folder

 

[granger99]

You have to put a redirect to your wordpress folder.

Goto cpanel and click on redirects

Select the domain set to http://yourdomain.com/wordpress




When you are getting 404 page. where you are trying to login. Can you give little description.

It appears to be you installed the wordpress has got the problem with domain name. Did you installed the wordpress using the same domain .

Or another domain. And when you are changing the settings did you changed the url of the site?

Yes, I believe I changed it to "http://www.mysite.com" instead of just "http://mysite.com"

"http://mysite.com/wp-login.php" <---I cannot log in here

 

[Gouri]

Yes, I believe I changed it to "http://www.mysite.com" instead of just "http://mysite.com"

"http://mysite.com/wp-login.php" <---I cannot log in here

Check this this might be useful, http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

Better First Backup database and files then start working on it.

You already changed so I think changing url in phpmyadmin may work for you.

 

[granger99]

OK, so I ended up deleting the database and starting over...

Now I have successfully completed the install and have the "Hello World!" new page in front of me.

But my blog address is "http://www.mysite.com/wordpress"

I am afraid if I change the settings in Wordpress to simply

"http://www.mysite.com" I will be right back where I was before.

So do I need to first set up a redirect in cPanel?

 

[Zubair]

Go in Cpanel file manager. Copy all files from wordpress dir to public_html(www). and then go to mysite.com/wordpress/wp-admin and change the URL to mysite .com

Then go back in file manager and delete the wordpress folder.. you are done!!

 

[granger99]

Go in Cpanel file manager. Copy all files from wordpress dir to public_html(www). and then go to mysite.com/wordpress/wp-admin and change the URL to mysite .com

Then go back in file manager and delete the wordpress folder.. you are done!!

When I installed Wordpress, it shows in 2 locations - the public html and also the wordpress directory farther down. Any changes made to one are made to the other simultaneously - there appears to be no way to move the file into the root directory, nor can I delete one wordpress folder and have the other remain. I am at the end of my rope here!

PLEASE HELP.

 

[granger99]

OK, so now I am thinking of starting over with a fresh install. I have unzipped the Wordpress file (rather than upload the zip directly) and have 3 folders (wp-admin, wp-content and wp-includes plus maybe 20 other individual files. How do I upload these to the root? Please tell me the EXACT location! I am growing increasingly desperate here, this is the SIXTH time I have re-installed Wordpress!

Here is what the options are in cPanel on the left side:


(/home/username)
access-logs
etc
mail

cur

new

tmp
public_ftp

incoming
public_html

_private

_vti_bin

_vti_cnf

_vti_log

_vti_pvt

_vti_txt

cgi-bin

images
tmp

analog

awstats

cpbandwidth

webalizer

webalizerftp
www

_private

_vti_bin

_vti_cnf

_vti_log

_vti_pvt

_vti_txt

cgi-bin

images

 

[descalzo]

At this point, "public_html" should be empty. Delete files _vti_inf.html and postinfo.html , and the directories cgi-bin ,images and _vti_bin.

Upload the wordpress files and directories (with their contents) to "public_html".

 

[granger99]

OK, I have done as you say. Now I have the following:

(/home/username)
access-logs
etc
mail

cur

new

tmp
public_ftp

incoming
public_html

_private

_vti_cnf

_vti_log

_vti_pvt

_vti_txt
tmp

analog

awstats

cpbandwidth

webalizer

webalizerftp
www

_private

_vti_cnf

_vti_log

_vti_pvt

_vti_txt

 

[descalzo]

Upload the wordpress files and directories (with their contents) to "public_html".

 

[granger99]

OK, I have done that.
Edit:
I then followed the Wordpress.org install instructions, changed the config.php file to a text file and then added my database info, etc.

IT WORKS !!!

Thank you very much !!!