barryb

Hi,
My Lycos Tripod page is at https://members.lycos.co.uk/bbrotherton/
(Sorry but I don’t know how to make that a direct link)
I am really just trying out WordPress there; I don’t think that I would use Lycos Tripod free hosting for a serious site. The banners etc are too intrusive for me. Anyway, have a look. I only got the site working last night so there is not really much content.

Thanks everryone but I’ve now cracked it!
From other posts on this forum, I realised that when using Winzip I had not extracted the folders. I did that and uploaded to Lycos. Changed and re-named the wp-config.sample.php file (actually I used the one I already had) and CHMODed where necessary. The wp–install.php file was then in wp-admin folder and not in root. Everything then set up without any problems. I hope this may help someone else.

Yes I did rename it and also deleted copy of wp-config.sample.php from the directory. File wp-config.php is actually in directory as I can see it via FTP. I have also CHMODed files as instructed.
I suspect that there is something a bit odd about the PHP set up of the free Lycos Tripod host.

Many thanks for replying. I did try that but I still get the no wp-config.php message!