Can't open /wp-admin/install.php

It seems like the domain has not been activated yet or the domain isn’t pointed to the hosting space (correctly).

Are you starting from the right source? Example, if you have a root directory of public_html and then within there you have another directory called wordpress, and then your wp-admin is inside that directory, then you won’t be able to access it from your site unless you go to yourdomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

If you do have it in the right directory, then you may have your DNS pointing to another location and are trying to access something which doesn’t exist at that other location.

I’ve accessed a page in my other site,
https://www.martin-woodhouse.co.uk/page37.html
— which is hosted by the same ISP (1and1) — no problem, the correct page is opened.

(is there a way to ‘browse’ to a specific page in a site following a directory tree, as one does with Windows Explorer? The only way I can see to get a directory listing for a site is by using an ftp program — here, Coreftp — which shows such a listing in its right-hand (target) panel?)

Here’s one thing that puzzles me:

No browser will open any Web site ulesst hat site contains a page called index.html — is that correct? (that is, ‘index.php’ — which does exist in my ftp-generated directory listing — won’t do, here? The suffix has to be “.html“, yes?

I assume that if and when I ‘run’
/wp-admin/install.php ,
one the many things it will do is to create a page called index.html: thus making the site ‘runnable.’ Is that correct, too?

What I don’t see is how I can ‘run’ /wp-admin/install.php if the site itself is inaccessible because it doesn’t (yet) have an index.html

(I realise that I am being only half-bright, here . . .?)

Martin

Stranger and stranger.

In reply to bh_WP_fan’s (helpful suggestion: DNS is pointing to the correct place, because 1and1 helpfully provide their own ‘dummy index.html’ for a site which has only just been domain-registered and created and thus lacks its own ‘proper’ index.html

This ‘dummy page’ merely provides some links to other sites, etc; but it also specifically tells me “if you can see this page your DNS is pointing to the correct place, so start building your site.”

——

I still can’t get to

https://www.atheismisacon.org.uk/wp-admin/install.php …

Cheers, Martin

— and I have now (following well-tried procedures!) started again from scratch. Deleted everything, then:-

Downloaded WordPress 3.0 into a dfferent directory
Unzipped all files into yet another directory
Uploaded all the extracted files to https://www.atheismisacon.org.uk using Coreftp again;
checked the contents of the site again, using same ftp program;/wp-admin/install.php exists ok

— but I STILL CANNOT RUN THIS FILE — at least not by going into explorer and putting
https://www.atheismisacon.org.uk/ wp-admin/install.php

in the address line . . .

What am I doing wrong? };->

Martin

No browser will open any Web site ulesst hat site contains a page called index.html — is that correct? (that is, ‘index.php’ — which does exist in my ftp-generated directory listing — won’t do, here? The suffix has to be “.html”, yes?

No. The suffix can be almost anything ?? It’s common to use index.php, index.html, index.shml, index.asp etc etc etc, so don’t worry about that just yet. If we have issues using index.php as document root, we can work on that when it comes up.

I can’t even get to https://www.atheismisacon.org.uk/wp-login.php so I have a feeling the files aren’t where you think they are.

https://www.atheismisacon.org.uk/index.php is missing for example.

Test idea.

Put a file in wp-admin (call it test.txt) and see if you can get to https://www.atheismisacon.org.uk/wp-admin/test.txt

The same thing happened to me and it was because of CGIBIN host.
change the permissions to:
755 for directories and
644 for php files

Maybe so. good luck
More informations: https://www.nsdesign.net/cgi-bin/helpdesk/cgi-bin/kb.cgi?do=read&id=94

Thank you, all.

1and1, my ISP, tells me it’s because I haven’t explicitly pointed my domain name to https://atheismisacon.org.uk . . .

I have just done so, using 1and1‘s Control Panel. They say I need to wait a few hours, so I’m going back to bed (it’s four-twenty a.m here) and hope all will be well in the morning.

This is part of The Wonderful World Of Computing, I dare say: Section 42: “There’s Always Some Damn Thing”.

};->

Martin Woodhouse

Problem now resolved by way of the previous post, above. Site now up and running (though with only a single page . . .)

Many thanks to all who have taken the trouble to reply to my original question; I have indeed filed this under Section 42 of The Wonderful World Of Computing : “There’s Always Some Damn Thing.”

Keeps a person young, after all.

Cheers and love