Installing Wordpress. Error on home page ... help!

Hi people,

I've installed wordpress on several different servers and never had a problem. However, I've tried several re-installs here:

Blog

But as you can see, I keep getting

Not Found

Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.​

I'm trying to install it on a friends server but can't imagine why I keep getting this. Also if I go to make a page and new posts, they save but do not show up anywhere afterwards. If anyone knows how to fix this problem I sure would appreciate your advice

 

works fine on my end.
refresh your cache

 

works well here

 

Yes, it works very good. I dont see any error...Can you give us a screen shot and we will help you

 

Thanks Phus. What I mean is instead of the homepage going to the hello page ... it says this ....



Usually when I've installed wordpress the frontpage automatically goes to the hello page

 

you should add some posts, did you search for something, or how did you arrive at that page?

 

I think it's fine now , I got the hello world message !

MB

 

That's the page it takes me too automatically. That is the homepage

I have added pages and posts & they appear to save.

But they do not show up in the posts or pages lists in admin or under blogroll.

 

hmm... disable all plugins, update them all, reenable them,
try wp-security plug in to check directory permissions

 

It's a new installation. It has no plug-ins enabled as yet. I'll go and try that wp-security plug in

 

It seems like your homepage is trying to call a page or post that's not existent.
Did you tweak a setting somewhere telling it to show a static homepage that doesn't exist?

Try adding in a theme, see if that fixes your problem.
Themes call different information on the index page depending on the theme itself,

 

No I didn't tweak anything. The first time I installed it I had this exact same problem, and tried a new theme but .... no luck.

I have just installed the security scanner and it says there should be a .htaccess file in wp-admin. I thought it would install that automatically?

I have no idea what code should be in the .htaccess file as I've never encountered this before.

 

Go to your directory, check the file .htaccess
If there isn't one, create one.
Then CHMOD it to 777, and then try again.

Wordpress uses .htaccess to re-write the pages,
You need it writable to make it work.
Once it's working, set it back to 744 (I think)

 

its working fine, hello world post is default one. U can delete it.