Wordpress noob needs help getting started

Question

My question is so stupid and maybe that's why I can't find an answer for it, not even reading the wordpress documentation. But I'm really lost here. I have in front of me full access to a server (FTP) and also to its wordpress admin dashboard.

And I cannot find the files of the site, for example www.mydomain.com/members

Where is members? I can't find it, when I access the server I see the folders wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes, etc... I see an index.php, but I don't see anything related to the pages I'm looking for.

Can you please provide me some insight on this?

Thank you very much!!!

Answer 1

www.mydomain.com/members is a URL rewrite to make the URL easier to read.

I think it routes www.mydomain.com/members to www.mydomain.com/index.php?action=members, so that explains why only index.php is visible.

Basically, when a request goes to www.mydomain.com/members, it's actually going to www.mydomain.com/index.php?action=members. It just looks prettier.