404 error on homepage – what to change???

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  lhcfotography · Member · Sep 22, 2011 at 3:58 pm

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  Hey guys.
  I am new in WordPress and got a template called “pcturethis” form a webdeveloper.
  setting is it all up goes along so far, but now when I access the site, there comes 404 error message.
  I contacted the creater of the theme and he said, that there should be no page actually set as a homepage. And i did not do that. After 6 days I still did not receive an answer the helps me… also the german wordpress forum could not help, so I am asking you guys for help now!!
  So can maybe anybody tell me, what I can change to gt this fixed? There should be pictures scrolling through the background.
  the adress is http://www.larsheinicke.de.
  I really apreciate your help!
  Thanks a lot,
  Lars

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  timethief · Member · Sep 22, 2011 at 4:05 pm

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  I’m sorry but your site is not hosted on WordPress.COM and you are posting to the wrong support forum. We run on different software and cannot help you here. This forum is only for support of sites hosted on WordPress.COM. Your support questions must be posted to the correct support site for your softwareand that is here http://wordpress.ORG/support/

  For more on the differences: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  lhcfotography · Member · Sep 22, 2011 at 4:07 pm

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  alright – got it.
  Thanks for the reply anyway!!
  Lars

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  timethief · Member · Sep 22, 2011 at 4:16 pm

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  You’re welcome and here’s a tip. Front pages will show a 404 page not found error when we have deleted the placeholder post and have not yet to published a post of our own creation. I don not know if that’s your issue or not and as I said you have to get support from http://wordpress.ORG/support/
  Best wishes for a speedy fix.

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  lhcfotography · Member · Sep 22, 2011 at 4:29 pm

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  Ok that sounds like it makes sense.
  But As I should not have any page or something set as background, I have no idea, where or what the placeholder could be…
  But already wrote this in the correct forum ;)

  thank you very much!!

  Lars

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  timethief · Member · Sep 22, 2011 at 4:43 pm

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  You’re welcome, Lars and best wishes for a happy ending. :)