Title: After installing, WordPress not automatically loading index.php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# After installing, WordPress not automatically loading index.php

 *  [bungy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungy/)
 * (@bungy)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/after-installing-wordpress-not-automatically-loading-indexphp/)
 * Hi, I have just installed the latest version of WordPress, have Apache and MySQL
   installed. All feels good, but when I navigate to the site, all the files are
   displayed and the page only loads after manually clicking the index.php. This
   is the same for the admin.
 * So obviously, once I have the page loaded there is not much I can do as it always
   fails to find the index.php. I remember on installing an older version, there
   was the ability to specify where wordpress would live. That does not appear to
   be in this version??
 * What do I need to do? This is slowly driving me nuts:(
 * Thanks

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/after-installing-wordpress-not-automatically-loading-indexphp/#post-272415)
 * You need to create a .htaccess file, then put this one line in:
 * DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php
 *  Thread Starter [bungy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungy/)
 * (@bungy)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/after-installing-wordpress-not-automatically-loading-indexphp/#post-272592)
 * Thx, fixed it. Added the index.php to httpd.conf. Thought I added it already 
   but apparently not:)

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 * Last reply from: [bungy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungy/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/after-installing-wordpress-not-automatically-loading-indexphp/#post-272592)
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