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WordPress Local WordPress Development Local WordPress Development Migrating WordPress from Local to Live Server

Rachel Mickelson
Rachel Mickelson
117 Points

Replacing an Old Website

After migrating per the video instructions, I asked my client to take down their old website. Now there are a list of files from the old site showing (on redactive.com): Index of /

Old index.html RedactiveLogo2.gif RedactiveLogo2.jpg ani-notepad.gif apnewscenterinstructions_r.htm apnewscenterinstructions_r_colorschememapping.xml apnewscenterinstructions_r_filelist.xml apnewscenterinstructions_r_themedata.thmx arcdistdoc/ arcstruct.jpg axis/ cd.gif cgi-bin/ close.gif confused!.gif confused.gif

2 Answers

The website requires an index.html or index.htm file to be present. Depends on how the server is configured.

Wordpress requires an index.php file to be set as the default document index.

Rachel Mickelson
Rachel Mickelson
117 Points

Thanks Miguel. I have an index.php in the wp folder. It says:

  • 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.