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Well – I’m back, apparently things are not as rosy as I thought (surprise!) ??

When I try to login to WP – I am getting a download request for wp-login.php – instead of logging me into the admin panel. If I fill in the install page manually – then putting in the username and passwd does log me into the admin panel properly.

Can anyone advise why this is happening and a possible solution ?

More details below

Once I use the code above (in the last reply) – navigating to the URL (like 127.0.0.1) gives the following page content:

WordPress
Already Installed

You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.

Log In

at https://localhost/wp-admin/install.php

However, if I manually fill in the values on the actual install page I get the following:

Success!

WordPress has been installed. Were you expecting more steps? Sorry to disappoint.
Username wpuser
Password

Your chosen password.

at https://localhost/wp-admin/install.php?step=2

then I can successfully visit – https://localhost/wp-login.php and log in as usual.

Here’s what I did – quite simple actually – and I apologize in advance for the hackish looking code:

import argparse
import mechanize

def wpFillInstallPage(sname):
br=mechanize.Browser()
br.open(‘https://127.0.0.1/wp-admin/install.php’)
br.select_form(nr=0)
br[‘weblog_title’]=’Welcome to ‘ + sname
br[‘user_name’]=’wpuser’
br[‘admin_password’]=’password’
br[‘admin_password2′]=’password’
br[‘admin_email’]=’[email protected]’
br.submit()

if __name__ == “__main__”:

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=’Fill out the wp install page’)
parser.add_argument(‘siteName’, type=str, help=’the name of the site’)

args = parser.parse_args()

wpFillInstallPage(args.siteName)

Now I can use python to set up posts etc..

Found this interesting topic on Stackoverflow – but no easy solution proposed: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5732384/automate-wordpress-install-from-python