how to set up your server correctly

Hi Christina,

Did you put the Wordpress files in /var/www/ ? That's where Apache expects to find the default web site. If you put things in the right spot there would be an "index.php" file in /var/www/ .

Hey No i did not should there have been a folder created already when i log in via ftp of should i create one?

If you are using Debian/Ubuntu, I would strongly recommend that you look at http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntudebianlamp_server - that will guide you through setting up Apache, PHP, MySQL, etc.

FTP will probably upload files to whatever location is the home directory of the user you logged in as. It's usually /home/username, or /root in the case of the root user. (Not a good idea to log in to FTP as root, though! Create a new user with the adduser command.)

Find those files and move them to /var/www