Title: just installed – not loading css
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# just installed – not loading css

 *  [mortona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mortona/)
 * (@mortona)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-installed-not-loading-css/)
 * I just installed on my webserver. did apt-get install wordpress, copied /usr/
   share/wordpress to /var/www/wordpress. set up wp-config.php, and installed. now
   when i go to /wordpress, it takes a while to load content, then just displays
   text without css. whats going on?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-installed-not-loading-css/#post-1646589)
 * how about a link?
 * a guess would be one of the 2 url’s are wrong – one is pointing to root and one
   to /wordpress
 *  Thread Starter [mortona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mortona/)
 * (@mortona)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-installed-not-loading-css/#post-1646594)
 * its on my local box.. not online. what do you mean urls? I access the page by
   going to 192.168.1.103/wordpress. i appreciate the help, if you need more info(.
   htaccess, permissions) just let me know, i’m not sure where to look. I have already
   given my web directory chmod 777 to try and fix things, but is not helping.
 * thanks.
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-installed-not-loading-css/#post-1646596)
 * You were on the right track from the start. The thing you did not need to do,
   was copy the contents to the web root. Without doing that, the path to wordpress
   should have been [http://localhost/wordpress](http://localhost/wordpress) ( or
   192.168.1.103/wordpress. if you did a remote install ), due to symlinks installed
   during the .deb package installation.
 * Installing wordpress from Debian repos’ can be a confusing experience. Once it’s
   done, you have to rely on the version of wordpress currently available in the
   repo for updating, which usually lags behind, and you are left with symlinks 
   pointing you to the directory where apt actually installed WordPress. (“/usr/
   share/wordpress” )
 * Let’s assume you are using Ubuntu as a server. I think the default apache2 document
   root is /var/www/ – let’s use that for this example.
 * Installation/repair in a nutshell.
 * 1) Uninstall wordpress. “apt-get remove wordpress” then whatever cleanup command
   you prefer to use.
 * 2) confirm your apache2 install is serving docs from /var/www/ and is working.
 * 3) download the wordpress package from the download link located at the top of
   this page.
 * 4) place all of those documents in /var/www/ and run [http://localhost](http://localhost)
   in your browser. That should start the install.
 * Or – leave everything in /usr/share/wordpress and access it using [http://localhost/wordpress](http://localhost/wordpress).
 * I think…
 * 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [mortona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mortona/)
 * (@mortona)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-installed-not-loading-css/#post-1646602)
 * thanks clayton! I was digging around for my phpmyadmin folder to try and replicate
   some settings since thats working. then i realized i dont have a phpmyadmin directory
   in /var/www. simultaneously, i returned here and saw your post and knew you must
   be right. followed your instructions and everything works. thanks!
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-installed-not-loading-css/#post-1646624)
 * Holy cow, it actually worked! Glad you got it going!
 * 🙂

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-installed-not-loading-css/#post-1646624)
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