Newbie Plesk Wordpress problems

[IMH]

Hi all - hopefully a couple of very easy problems to resolve but have me stumped at the moment...

Using Plesk 12 with an automated install of Wordpress. Created a site locally using wamp and after some database related issues finally managed to upload the content using a plug in and the content looks fine and largely(!) works.

The directory structure is root/httpdocs/wordpress (and I can't change that as a webapp is using it - presumably the Wordpress install).

Following various articles on the net I've deleted the Wordpress skeleton files and index.html file however I'm not entirely sure whether the index.php file should directly be under root or in the httpdocs folder?? - as wherever I put index.php and edit the path accordingly it doesn't display the site.

Adding the wordpress folder into the site address ie mysite.com/wordpress displays the content.

Also one article indicated that as I'm using permalinks I need to also copy the .htaccess file but it doesn't display in the Plesk file manager. I know it's a hidden file but I can't see it either when forcing FileZilla to show hidden files.[edit - as it's a windows server, further reading indicates it should be web.config rather than .htaccess (?) but the same comment applies... imh]

Can someone point out what I'm doing wrong please??

Thanks

 

[InderS]

Hi,
Try changing the document root through IIS to the wordpress folder. This way, the folder wordpress inside httpdocs will be treated as document root.