Help..Backlight is overriding my Rapid Weaver Index page!

Backlight 4, 5 & 6 Support
#1

UPDATE+ on the below: After talking to Bluehost we discovered this file was the causing the problem
.htaccess and they rerouted it to my orignal index.html file

I have installed Backlight successfully on my server with the purpose of just making galleries, not a website which I already have, but now it is overriding my website HOME/index page made with Rapid Weaver. I have deleted all the Backlight pages but it doesn’t go back to my already built with Rapid Weaver website. What do I need to delete??

If I enter: Edward Levinson Edo Photos it goes to my Rapid Weaver built page
If I enter:
http://www.edophoto.com it goes to a Backlight “something went wrong page”

Interestingly my off-site gallery pages built with Turning Gate are now working properly (they weren’t which is why I was upgrading to Backlight) Now the old galleries work BUT the Home menu take you to the Backlight “something went wrong page”.

TTG 3 built gallery link troubles with index.php file
#2

The two files that will cause Backlight to become your main website are .htaccess and index.php in the public_html directory. If you’re only interested in using Backlight for albums, then skip these.

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#3

Thanks Ben. I did NOT see that info anywhere in the doc installation guide. Would have saved me some trouble.

I understand they should be deleted from the public_html folder. But those same two files names are ALSO in the Backlight Folder. Do they need to be there for the galleries to work independently from my other webpages?

#4

Even though those two files have the same name, they are different files and are required for Backlight albums and sets to work.

#5

Ok thanks. And now trying to get my old galleries working again until I can find time to make the new ones!

#6

As mentioned yesterday, you have to treat public_html/edo as what is in the documentation referred to as public_html.

So your installation should look like:

public_html/
   edo/
      index.php
      .htaccess
      backlight/
      galleries/

Don’t touch your index.php/index.html/.htaccess files in public_html! They belong to your main domain and not to your edophoto.com domain.

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#7

Thanks Daniel for the extra clarifying info.

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