stimpycatI've followed all the installation instructions, to the letter.
The wp-config.php file is amended correct and named correctly.
It's in the right directory (the root).
I've uploaded all the other files and folders.
But whenever I click on 'Install' I get this:
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'); $schema = ( isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTPS']) == 'on' ) ? 'https://' : 'http://'; $guessurl = str_replace('/wp-admin/install.php?step=2', '', $schema . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) ); if (isset($_GET['step'])) $step = $_GET['step']; else $step = 0; header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' ); ?>
hide_errors(); $installed = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users"); if ($installed) die('
'.__('Already Installed').'
'.__('You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.').'
'); $wpdb->show_errors(); switch($step) { case 0: ?>
ReadMe documentation at your leisure.'), '../readme.html'); ?>
ERROR: please type your e-mail address")); } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { die (__("ERROR: the e-mail address isn't correct")); } ?>
query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->linkcategories (cat_id, cat_name) VALUES (1, '".$wpdb->escape(__('Blogroll'))."')"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/', 'Donncha', 1, 'http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/feed/', '');"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://zengun.org/weblog/', 'Michel', 1, 'http://zengun.org/weblog/feed/', '');"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://boren.nu/', 'Ryan', 1, 'http://boren.nu/feed/', '');"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://photomatt.net/', 'Matt', 1, 'http://xml.photomatt.net/feed/', '');"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://zed1.com/journalized/', 'Mike', 1, 'http://zed1.com/journalized/feed/', '');"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://www.alexking.org/', 'Alex', 1, 'http://www.alexking.org/blog/wp-rss2.php', '');"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://dougal.gunters.org/', 'Dougal', 1, 'http://dougal.gunters.org/feed/', '');"); // Default category $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->categories (cat_ID, cat_name, category_nicename, category_count, category_description) VALUES ('0', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Uncategorized'))."', '".sanitize_title(__('Uncategorized'))."', '1', '')"); // First post $now = date('Y-m-d H:i:s'); $now_gmt = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s'); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->posts (post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_content, post_excerpt, post_title, post_category, post_name, post_modified, post_modified_gmt, comment_count, to_ping, pinged, post_content_filtered) VALUES ('1', '$now', '$now_gmt', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!'))."', '', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Hello world!'))."', '0', '".$wpdb->escape(__('hello-world'))."', '$now', '$now_gmt', '1', '', '', '')"); $wpdb->query( "INSERT INTO $wpdb->post2cat (rel_id, post_id, category_id) VALUES (1, 1, 1)" ); // Default comment $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->comments (comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_author_email, comment_author_url, comment_date, comment_date_gmt, comment_content) VALUES ('1', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Mr WordPress'))."', '', 'http://wordpress.org/', '$now', '$now_gmt', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Hi, this is a comment.
To delete a comment, just log in, and view the posts\' comments, there you will have the option to edit or delete them.'))."')"); // First Page $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->posts (post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_content, post_excerpt, post_title, post_category, post_name, post_modified, post_modified_gmt, post_status, to_ping, pinged, post_content_filtered) VALUES ('1', '$now', '$now_gmt', '".$wpdb->escape(__('This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.'))."', '', '".$wpdb->escape(__('About'))."', '0', '".$wpdb->escape(__('about'))."', '$now', '$now_gmt', 'static', '', '', '')"); $wp_rewrite->flush_rules(); // Set up admin user $random_password = substr(md5(uniqid(microtime())), 0, 6); $display_name_array = explode('@', $admin_email); $display_name = $display_name_array[0]; $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->users (ID, user_login, user_pass, user_email, user_registered, display_name, user_nicename) VALUES ( '1', 'admin', MD5('$random_password'), '$admin_email', NOW(), '$display_name', 'admin')"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->usermeta (user_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES ({$wpdb->insert_id}, '{$table_prefix}user_level', '10');"); $admin_caps = serialize(array('administrator' => true)); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->usermeta (user_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES ({$wpdb->insert_id}, '{$table_prefix}capabilities', '{$admin_caps}');"); $message_headers = 'From: ' . $weblog_title . ' log in with the username "admin" and password "%2$s".'), '../wp-login.php', $random_password); ?>
Note that password carefully! It is a random password that was generated just for you. If you lose it, you will have to delete the tables from the database yourself, and re-install WordPress. So to review:'); ?>
admin
wp-login.php
WordPress, personal publishing platform.'); ?>
