basslion

Try this, delete the wp-config-sample.php and the wp-config.php from the server and just re-upload the wp-config-sample.php to the server again.

You may also want to do a clean install too by deleting all the files from the server, then deleting all files from your computer and re-downloading the package and uploading the files back to the server.

Dont edit the wp-config-sample.php and just run the url https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin and it should go to the database setup.

Also try editing your htaccess file to include the following only:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

You can also include the following inside your wp-config.php file once you have setup the database and wordpress has created the wp-config.php file for you in the root directory.

define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);

add it just before the following:

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //

This will report any errors for you on the install.php page. i just tried it on mine and it game me errors about access being denied to my database.

See after i solved the issue i was mentioning to you before about blank screen right from the start, i then go the blank screen at install.php.

Access denied i though to myself, hrmmm. So i double checked my wp-config.php and there it was, my password for my database was missing a character. fixed it and uploaded it back to the server and im running smoothly.

hope that helps!

Good luck!

Thanks for all the help people, really appreciate it.

The issue was my password was missing a character and when i used the debug code that govpatel supplied, i was able to find this out and fix it.

wierd thing though, after i last saw the white screen, i tried to go back to wordpress to read these replies and when i went to www.ads-software.com, i got the white screen of death. I still cannot get onto www.ads-software.com on my desktop even after clearing my google chrome cache and cookies.

i am now on my laptop using the same router and i can now get on fine as you can see but my desktop cant access this site. wierd.

Thanks again!

Yeah this wordpress is being a nightmare to me too. At least you are seeing some screens. All i get is blank screen fromt the get go.

Check your path (file location). wp-config.php should be in the same folder as the directories wp-admin/, wp-content/ and wp-includes/ (commonly referred to as the WordPress ‘root’ or top-level directory). Verify there is no whitespace in the file

Download
wp-config.php
(if you don’t have shell access).
Open it in your favorite text editor.
Check that the first line contains nothing but
<?php
, and that there is no text before it (not even whitespace).
Check that the last line contains nothing but
?>
, and that there is no text after it (not even whitespace).
Save the file, upload it again.

I just copied this from various blogs, not sure if it will solve yer issue though as im not having the same issue.