Install.php just displays the HTML

Hi there,
Did you follow the complete steps to make a new installation? (make a new DB etc)?

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_WordPress

It simply means PHP isn’t running.

Hi Stefan

Did I follow the complete steps? I wish!

I got as far as unzipping the file into a dedicated folder alongside my existing WordPress installation and clicking on install.php.

Hi staartmees – No, it’s not that. PHP 5.6 is running and supporting my existing WordPress 4.5.3 installation.

Any other suggestions please?

– Paul

open wp-admin/install.php in your browser

“open” in this case means browse to the file using your browser. Enter https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/install.php in the browser address bar to run the file.

Can you describe me your subfolders hierarchy?
Let’s say you have the public_html folder where your live website lives:

public_html/yourlivesite.com

You made a folder, mysecondsite so now you got:

public_html/
folder: yourlivesite.com
folder: mysecondsite.com

When you unzip WordPress zip, it gives you a folder named wordpress

Then your folders hierarchy becomes:

public_html/
folder:  yourlivesite.com
folder:  mysecondsite.com/wordpress/hereareallmywordpressfiles

What I really try to explain here is, to try to follow your folders hierarchy so we can check it out that you’re entering the right Url of your subfolders path.

Can you enter in your browser:

https://yoursite.com/yoursecondsitefolder/wordpress/install.php

Let’s try this one, so we can be sure that you’re in the right path!

Thanks for your help everyone! ??

Following bdbrown’s advice I was able to run the installation process. So I now have 2 installations of WordPress

The folder structure looks like this (and please bear in mind that I am hosting this on a Synology NAS)

NAS02
web
wordpress (my live site)
wordpress461test (my new sandbox site)

I thought I’d start by copying over the content from the live site so I could experiment with themes etc. Lacking any knowledge of ways to do this I chose what I though would be the simple option. I exported the content from the live site into an XML file so that I could import it to the test site. But before I could do that I obviously needed to download the import plugin.

I tried to do that but hit a problem:

“Connection Information

Failed to connect to FTP Server barrettnas2.synology.me:21”

I tried various credentials but none worked so I am wondering if it’s a port forwarding issue. I had that problem with the live system and had to set up a router port forwarding rule for Port 80. Could that be the issue here? (But why, if Port 80 is already open and pointed to the NAS?)

+1
1. Try to create an ftp account for your installation, or contact your hosting provider to do that for.

2. If WordPress asks you to provide FTP details, you can provide these ftp details in your wp-config.php file: WordPress Upgrade Constants

define('FS_METHOD', 'ftpext');
define('FTP_BASE', '/var/www/vhosts/yourftpbasepath/');
define('FTP_USER', 'username');
define('FTP_PASS', 'password');
define('FTP_HOST', 'host');
define('FTP_SSL', false);

Also, your login credentials should be the right ones!

Let me know if this worked for you.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Stefano.

Also, you can upload your plugin through Cpanel, and upload it in:

./yourinstallation/wp-content/plugins folder

Hi Stefano

Thanks for your replies.

I must have an ftp account running already, to support the existing WP 4.5.3 installation that I created using the specific Synology WP Package. But I did not get asked any of this information as part of that installation process. I guess the installer must have done it silently. So how do I discover the ftp credentials? I’ll repost that question on the Synology forum too but if you happen to know that’d be great.

And now for the newbie question. Cpanel? What’s that please?

Regards

Hi,
cPanel?is a Linux-based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface of hosting a web site.
You can login to your cpanel by your hosting account or by going to https://yourdomain.com/cpanel

thanks