Title: Installation
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Installation

 *  [mikeherman2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeherman2/)
 * (@mikeherman2)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-2/)
 * Hello,
 * I’d like to set my blog up as the home page or index.html, but something didn’t
   work right.
 * Unfortunately my host does not have Fantastico, but I was able to set up the 
   MySQL database, change wp-config, ftp all the files up to the same location as
   my current index.html. And I went through the installation and everything looked
   fine, able to login, post to the blog.
 * However I am not able to see the blog. When I go to my home page of the domain,
   the blog should be there, right? But it was not.
 * I uninstalled and deleted the MySQL database and redid everything with the same
   result, it didn’t work right.
 * Any ideas? By the way my host is DataTide.
 * Thanks for your help,
 * Mike

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 *  [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/)
 * (@coldforged)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-2/#post-196053)
 * > When I go to my home page of the domain, the blog should be there, right? But
   > it was not.
 * What was there? Do you still have your `index.html` in that place? That’s likely
   overriding WordPress’ `index.php` that should be the new index.
 *  [CK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ck/)
 * (@ck)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-2/#post-196054)
 * You got the loop? I think you might forgot to loop it.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-2/#post-196057)
 * Try deleting your cache / cookies ?
 *  Thread Starter [mikeherman2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeherman2/)
 * (@mikeherman2)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-2/#post-196060)
 * Should I delete the current index.html so the the index.php takes over?
 * Looping, I’m sure I forgot, I don’t know what that is.
 * I’ll reinstall it again so I can triple check it and delete my cache. Then I’ll
   post again to let you know how that went.
 * Thanks,
 * Mike
 *  [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/)
 * (@coldforged)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-2/#post-196062)
 * > Should I delete the current index.html so the the index.php takes over?
 * Or, to see if the blog content is even there, simply append an explicit “index.
   php” to the end of the URL. A reinstall really won’t help you at this point.
 *  Thread Starter [mikeherman2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeherman2/)
 * (@mikeherman2)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-2/#post-196080)
 * Thanks everyone it works.
 * I just deleted the index.html and now it go right to the index.php.
 * Mike

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [mikeherman2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeherman2/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-2/#post-196080)
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