Trouble with the last instal step

  • Hi

    I’ve been trying to install wordpress and up until this point it’s been going pretty smoothly. But I’m having a problem on the very last step.

    I highlighted and uploaded all the files to my host, like said in the installation tutorial. And the files are in the file manager on my control panel. The problem is every time I try to access the wp-admin/install like it says in the instructions I get a message saying the web address doesn’t exist.

    Do you guys have any ideas what I may be doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks

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  • Are your files in the correct directory ?
    www
    public_html
    htdocs
    web
    ?

    And you are trying to access https://yoursite.com/wordpressfolder/wp-admin/install.php, right? It’s a file not a folder of its own….

    Just checking to be sure!

    Thread Starter alloy

    (@alloy)

    Thanks for the quick replys.

    Anyways

    I’m not sure if they’re in the correct directory or not. I see them in the file manager on my control panel. There’s about 5 wordpress folders and a bunch of files. How can I tell what directory there in?

    To the second post.

    I tried to access them from that html as well… but not luck. Before I hadn’t included the “wordpressfolder” in the address bar.

    I’ve been having similar problems. I’ve set up Apache and PHP 4.3 on my machine as well as a sufficiently current version of MySQL. My browser just tries to open wp-admin/install.php as a text file, and if I go to the CLI and type # php wp-admin/install.php I get a line telling me that “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.” Aside from the bad grammar, it’s very confusing, because I could swear I’ve got MySQL running.

    alloy: you would absolutely NOT find your install anywhere in “wordpressfolder” – you need to replace that word with the name of the folder YOUR OWN WORDPRESS distro is installed in!

    But what about that error? “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.”

    I’ve got all of LAMP in and functioning. My version of MySQL is high enough. What could be sending me that message?

    Whatever the problem was, I updated Apache and MySQL to the most current versions Fedora Core 3 offers, made sure the right password was in the right file, and phpmyadmin worked!

    I then commented out the part in wp-settings.php that checks for mysql and gives that error. I’m now happily blogging!

    Good for you to stick it out and also post your solution ??

    you did what mithrandir? you commented out the part in wp-settings.php that checks for mysql? i.e. like this?
    #if ( !extension_loaded(‘mysql’) )
    # die( ‘Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.’ );

    i just get a blank page. i created wordpress catalog in mysql administrator. i don’t remember seeing in the directions that it had to be done prior to installing. either way, all i’m getting is a blank page. i’ve reinstalld php. mysql is running fine (mt loves me). so it’s wordpress who’s buckin me here.

    appreciate any assistance. thx.

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