Title: Fatal Error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Fatal Error

 *  [dtcont](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtcont/)
 * (@dtcont)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/)
 * I have a godaddy hosting in which installed wordpress application. I then proceeded
   to install a premium theme i bought from themeforrest, i tried installing the
   theme from the online wordpress application but iwas giving me an error, which
   i dont remember, the i transferred the file on the theme from an FTP client to
   the root folder of godaddy.
    I got the following error : “**Fatal error: Call
   to undefined function get_header() in /home/content/78/10035278/html/index.php
   on line 14″** Please let me know what i did wrong and how to fix this problem.
 * P.S: i am new to this

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 *  [hoatbui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoatbui/)
 * (@hoatbui)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543646)
 * Did you install wordpress onto your godaddy account? If not, install it and then
   login to wordpress through godaddy and go a fresh install of your theme through
   the ‘theme’ options.
 *  [Rajesh Soni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajeshsoni/)
 * (@rajeshsoni)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543647)
 * >  i transferred the file on the theme from an FTP client to the root folder 
   > of godaddy
 * That’s not how you install themes.
    You overwrote the WordPress index.php by 
   doing that.
 * Please save the below as index.php and upload to your godaddy hosting (to your
   document root)
 *     ```
       <?php
       /**
        * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
        * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
        *
        * @package WordPress
        */
   
       /**
        * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
        *
        * @var bool
        */
       define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
   
       /** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
       require('./wp-blog-header.php');
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [dtcont](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtcont/)
 * (@dtcont)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543648)
 * [@hoatbui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoatbui/) Godaddy had an option
   to install wordpress, i installed it through that
    [@rajesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajesh/)
   yes i installed all the files
 *  [Rajesh Soni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajeshsoni/)
 * (@rajeshsoni)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543650)
 * See my note above.
 *  Thread Starter [dtcont](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtcont/)
 * (@dtcont)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543653)
 * can i edit the idex.php in the root directory?
 *  [Rajesh Soni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajeshsoni/)
 * (@rajeshsoni)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543654)
 * Yes you have to edit the index.php in the root directory (as it appears you’ve
   overwritten it with the index.php of your theme folder.)
 *  Thread Starter [dtcont](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtcont/)
 * (@dtcont)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543667)
 * i did what you said, edited the index.php with information you provided.
    there
   is no fatal error anymore but my old site(i deleted it all the files of it from
   godaddy hosting) appears. WP admin panel does show my theme.
 * What did i do wrong?
 *  [Rajesh Soni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajeshsoni/)
 * (@rajeshsoni)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543669)
 * Ok that sounds great.
 * It appears you’ve mistakenly overwritten `index.php` (in your **doc root**) with
   the `index.php` of your **theme** folder
 * Glad you got it working!
 *  Thread Starter [dtcont](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtcont/)
 * (@dtcont)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543673)
 * i think you misunderstood me 🙂
    i deleted the old website, which we didn’t use
   WordPress for, and installed wordpress and installed a theme. I have put all 
   the files in the root directory but no theme is installed in wordpress I would
   appreciate if you can help me out
 *  [Rajesh Soni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajeshsoni/)
 * (@rajeshsoni)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543674)
 * URL of your website please?
 *  Thread Starter [dtcont](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtcont/)
 * (@dtcont)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543676)
 * dtcont.com
 *  [Rajesh Soni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajeshsoni/)
 * (@rajeshsoni)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543677)
 * Okay so there are NO more fatal errors etc. and the theme that is used is the
   wordpress default theme.
 * Now, as I understand, you’re saying that the content is showing from the old 
   website.
 * You have to edit `wp-config.php` and make sure the database details etc. are 
   of the correct setup that you want to link to.
 * To install a new theme, always upload the entire theme folder inside your doc_root(`
   public_html/wp-content/themes` or `www/wp-content/themes`)
 * Never edit WordPress core files!
 *  Thread Starter [dtcont](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtcont/)
 * (@dtcont)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543678)
 * hmm
    ok so now what
 *  Thread Starter [dtcont](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtcont/)
 * (@dtcont)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543679)
 * theme that is used is a theme we bought from [http://www.themeforrest.com](http://www.themeforrest.com)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-673/#post-3543679)
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