But when I uploaded to the production server via FTP (I know, I know) the home page comes up with a 404. Troubleshooting, I replaced with Sage master files (after gulp of course) and still getting a url bar like: www.website.com/index.html and a 404.
Played around with
deactivating Soil - nope
activating core themes - there’s the posts
setting home to static page - nope
permalink settings - this was interesting 'cause on default settings message:
The requested URL /index.html was not found on this server.
Not sure how those lines got there. (The server account is old, maybe I wanted it passwd protected at some point.) Commented them out, played around with permalinks a bit and we seem to be up and running properly.