amy1985um

Sorry to bump such an old post, but I’m having the same problem myself and was just wondering if anyone had the solution … granted, it’s most likely an obvious one staring me right in the face. ?? Thanks !

Just a shot in the dark, but when you run wp-admin/install.php, are you running it using ftp instead of http in your url? Sounds like a problem I had as described in https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/51591 which was solved just by correctly using http.

Okay all … time for me to admit my utter buttness in this installation issue, but considering how I’ve seen some posts from others with this same set of facts, I know I’m not alone in experiencing the problem … so hopefully by acknowledging my brain fart others can avoid spending way too much time solving a problem that you’re causing yourself … you can solve the problem by:

Stop typing ftp://domainname/wp-admin/install.php in your browser,

Instead type https://domainname/wp-admin/install.php.

It’s that simple. Yeah, I know. It’s obvious. I know better. However, sometimes … one just doesn’t see the forest through the trees. Thanks Moshu for telling me to run the info.php script which is when I finally realized what I had been doing. ??

Thanks M & M. I’m still not having any success. I re-downloaded WP, extracted anew, edited wp-config.php with the MySql database info for the one I set up, uploaded all files and subdirs with ascii file transfer protocol and still get the same error-type message. I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with tech support at GoDaddy, I know I have Linux and PHP listed as my hosting package, and they assure me that I have PHP and it’s working, but it still seems to me that you guys are right and that it has to be related to the PHP not doing its thing. I don’t know though, I hate to think it’s going to get the best of me, but I’m starting to feel beaten. ??

Opps … sorry. When I run wp-admin/install.php, I get the following error message, of which I’m only posting the beginning since it’s fairly long:

wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.”); require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./upgrade-functions.php’); $guessurl = str_replace(‘/wp-admin/install.php?step=2’, ”, ‘https://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . dirname($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) ); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?>
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hide_errors(); $installed = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users”); if ($installed) die(__(‘

The message then goes on to make reference at some point that it appears I have already installed WordPress, which isn’t accurate. It sounds like this is the same problem being addressed in
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/38470, expect that in my situation, it’s not on my own server, but GoDaddy.

I’m having the exact same problem … I’ve rechecked the name of the wp-config.php file, along with the directory locations and references. Everything seems correct. I saw in another thread that someone mentioned to make sure I didn’t upload my files in binary, so I deleted everything and uploaded them again hardset to ascii, still the same problem. I checked with my host, GoDaddy, and they said I am set up for Linux and PHP, but I’m still thinking that has to be the problem somehow. I signed up for the Economy package, which I thought I’ve seen others mention works for them, but GoDaddy was suggesting that I might want to upgrade to Deluxe. Of course, the tech support I was speaking with had never heard of WordPress either, so I’m not sure that’s a recommendation that needs to be given a lot of reliance. Any thoughts anyone ?? Please ?? ??