Fixing the “Coming Soon” Page

I see a “Coming Soon…” page instead of my content!

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Welcome to Yegara HOST! Every new hosting account starts with a placeholder page, so your domain shows something until your own site is ready. It is a file named index.html in your public_html folder, and it looks like this:

Yegara Host Coming Soon Page
Yegara Host Coming Soon Page

Seeing this page is good news: it means your domain and your hosting are working.

Why you still see it after adding your site

If you uploaded your website or installed WordPress and the Coming Soon page is still there, the placeholder file is still in the folder. The server shows index.html before anything else, so it wins over your own home page. Delete the file and your site appears.

Remove the Coming Soon page

Step 1. Log in to cPanel. You can open it from your Yegara dashboard or with the link in your “New Account Information” email.

The Login to cPanel link under Quick Actions on the hosting package page
In your Yegara dashboard, the cPanel login link is under Quick Actions on your package page.

Step 2. In the Files section, click File Manager.

The File Manager icon in the Files section of cPanel

Step 3. Click public_html in the left column.

The public_html folder in the File Manager navigation

Step 4. Select the file named index.html and click Delete at the top of the File Manager.

Selecting index.html and clicking Delete

Step 5. Confirm. You can move the file to the trash or delete it permanently. The trash is safer, because you can restore the file if you change your mind.

The delete confirmation window

On Standard hosting the steps are the same in the File Manager of DirectAdmin.

If you now see “403 Forbidden”

This means there is no home page file left for the server to show. Your site’s own index.html or index.php must sit directly inside public_html, not inside a subfolder. Upload your site or install WordPress, and the error goes away.

A 403 Forbidden error shown when no index file is found