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title: "Should every site have a directory?"
url: https://totalwebtalk.com/forum/30200-post10
description: "Did the install process say success when you were finished? And of course you CHMOD'd all of the proper files? I actually had this happen to me... and I am ..."
published: 2026-04-28
updated: 2026-04-28
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# Should every site have a directory?

Published 2026-04-28

03-17-2006, 03:56 PM

30200-post10.html

Did the install process say success when you were finished? And of course you CHMOD'd all of the proper files? I actually had this happen to me... and I am trying to remember what it was that I did...???

OH yeah... I deleted it and then deleted the MySQL db then re-created a new one with a different name because it left something on my server that said something like - User name already exists File#1 it set everything up but returned 404 errors...

try deleting it and then delete the DB - recreate the DB then FTP the files again... Also if you're going to change the name of the folder "Free_Site-sift_directory" do this before you FTP - I suppose if you're doing it on your own machine then you don't have to FTP but then how are you changing the CHMOD's to 777?

NeO

## More replies in this discussion

[NeO · 03-17-2006, 03:56 PM](https://totalwebtalk.com/forum/30200-post10.html)

[ultimatehandyma · 03-15-2006, 08:08 AM](https://totalwebtalk.com/forum/30069-post3.html)