Help! What am I doing wrong in installing?

  • Resolved hamster_rave

    (@hamster_rave)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    Help! Here is what ‘s going on:

    1. I have space on my server (let’s say https://www.example.com) and all the mySQL-data (username, name database, password) I think I need.
    2. I would like to make a new corporate blog [e.g. https://www.corporateblog.com] which has nothing to do with example.com, but the use of the space. I already bought the domain name.
    3. I downloaded www.ads-software.com and changed the wp-config-sample.php doc and saved it as wp-config.php, as explained in the tutorial.
    4. Using Filezilla, I uploaded the content of the folder ‘wordpress’ into a new folder ‘corporateblog’ on httpdocs.
    5. Still, if I go to https://example.com/corporateblog/wp-admin.php I can’t acces it.
    6. What am I doing wrong?
    7. HELP! This is urgent.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Did you go to https://example.com/corporateblog/wp-admin/install.php ?

    Thread Starter hamster_rave

    (@hamster_rave)

    Hi Ipstenu,

    This link was just an example. Off course I changed ‘example.com’ and ‘corporateblog’. But it still doesn’t work.
    ??

    Two things. Under point 4, was the result three folders in the root and a bunch of files or do you have a “wordpress” folder and then three subfolders and a bunch of files?

    Under 5, there is no such thing as wp-admin.php. wp-admin is a folder, not a file.

    Thread Starter hamster_rave

    (@hamster_rave)

    Roy,

    @4: I copied the bunch of files from the wordpress-folder from my desktop, to a new folder ‘corporateblog’, which I made under the httpdocsfolder (where I see files named as apps, batch, cache, config, data, doc, lib, log, plugins, web).

    @5: okay, I got your point (and ipstenu’s point as well). https://example.com/corporateblog/wp-admin/install.php didn’t work either.

    Thx

    (where I see files named as apps, batch, cache, config, data, doc, lib, log, plugins, web).

    Eh? You’re not trying to install WP in a folder where is already something else?
    You should have only three folders “wp-admin”, “wp-content” and “wp-includes” and a bunch of wp files. No, apps, batch, cache, data, doc or whatever. Just compare your server with the unzipped WP download.

    Thread Starter hamster_rave

    (@hamster_rave)

    Oops, actually I did try to install it in the httpdocs-directory.
    The point is filezilla reports ‘permission denied’ if I try to make a new directory ‘corporateblog’ in the / root. So where else can I install WP?
    Thx again.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    From your list, I recommend trying the /web/ directory. Unfortunately, the name of the web root directory varies depending on hosting provider, so I’m not sure if that’s right, but it seems like the most logical possibility.

    Thread Starter hamster_rave

    (@hamster_rave)

    Ok James,
    here is what’s in my list: anon_ftp, bin, cgi-bin, conf, error_docs, httpdocs, httpdocs.bak, httpsdocs, pd, private, statistics, subdomains, web_users. My host told me httpdocs was the root directory. So that should be correct, shouldn’t it?

    Yes, but what is in that httpdocs ‘folder’?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Well, if /httpdocs/ really is your web root directory, then anything uploaded to it should be accessible via your domain.

    Thread Starter hamster_rave

    (@hamster_rave)

    In the httpdocs I see:
    directories such as apps, batch, cache, config, data, doc, lib, log, plugins, web,
    + three files,
    + the /corporateblog/ directory I made.

    In there, I see exactly the same wordpress-content as is on the unzipped WP download:
    26 files, 3 folders.

    However, now I notice the size is not the same. Left (desktop)=247.585 bytes. Right (server)=247.124 bytes. Has it something to do with this?

    Thread Starter hamster_rave

    (@hamster_rave)

    @james: you mean via https://example.com/corporateblog/wp-admin/install.php?
    nope ??

    There should be nothing in the root than the three WP folders and files. Perhaps James is right and everything should be in the “web” subfolder. Just make a simple html index.html file with some random text, upload it and see if you see that page at example.com/corporateblog

    Btw, it might actually help if you just gave the real url.

    [edit] Ah, you made a subfolder yourself. The WP files are in that subfolder or directly in httpdocs?

    Thread Starter hamster_rave

    (@hamster_rave)

    Okay, if it helps:
    https://ideeweb.be/communicatiestatie/wp-admin/install.php

    Just uploaded an index.hmtl file and it doesn’t appear on https://ideeweb.be/communicatiestatie

    [edit] Ah, you made a subfolder yourself. The WP files are in that subfolder or directly in httpdocs?

    Yes I made a subfolder /communicatiestatie/ myself. And the WP files are IN that subfolder.

    Thx guys, I am getting closer. ??

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Try moving the /communicatiestatie/ directory into the /httpdocs/web/ directory.

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