Attempting to Install New Blog with WordPress 2.8

  • I have been attempting to create a new blog and have uploaded it several times. Every time, I have received error messages. The most recent installation uses WordPress 2.8. The error message I receive when I click on the /wp-admin/install.php link from the html readme page follows:

    error) ) wp_die($wpdb->error->get_error_message()); display_header(); // Fill in the data we gathered $weblog_title = isset($_POST[‘weblog_title’]) ? stripslashes($_POST[‘weblog_title’]) : ”; $admin_email = isset($_POST[‘admin_email’]) ? stripslashes($_POST[‘admin_email’]) : ”; $public = isset($_POST[‘blog_public’]) ? (int) $_POST[‘blog_public’] : 0; // check e-mail address $error = false; if (empty($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __(‘you must provide an e-mail address.’) ); $error = true; } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __(‘that isn’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses look like: [email protected]’) ); $error = true; } if ( $error === false ) { $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = wp_install($weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email, $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?>

    I have checked and double checked the wp-config.php page as advised but have found no errors.

    Thanks much!

    Carrie L. Lewis

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Looks like PHP isn’t set up on your server. Check with your web host if there’s something special you need to do to run PHP.

    Also, you should probably use WP 2.9.2 instead of 2.8. Latest version and all that ??

    Thread Starter CarrieLLewis

    (@carriellewis)

    I have two other blogs that are fully functioning and have been for a year or more (one of them is two years old). Both of them are up to 2.8.6.

    I have attempted to upload 2.9.2 but there is some difficulty with that, as well. I don’t recall what I needed.

    Would you recommend I copy the information above to my host?

    Thanks!

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I have attempted to upload 2.9.2 but there is some difficulty with that, as well. I don’t recall what I needed.

    You need the same as you need with 2.8 – That didn’t change.

    Anyway, email your host and tell them ‘When I try to install WordPress, the page is coming up as un-parsed PHP. Is PHP turned on for my site? Is there anything I need to change to make it work? Thanks!’

    It’s probably as simple as some .htaccess changes, but each host is a little different.

    Thread Starter CarrieLLewis

    (@carriellewis)

    Thanks! Will do!

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