Basic Questions on Installation – not in FAQ

  • Resolved guidol

    (@guidol)


    15 years, 2 months ago

    Hello.

    I am totally new to WordPress and have a couple of problems with installation and running it. I searched the forums and the codex, but didn’t really find the answers I needed. So, here we go:

    What is available:
    I have a hoster with Apache, with PHP 4.4.2 and MySQL 4.1.20. mod_rewrite is enabled.

    What I want:
    There is a static website I would like to keep and add the blog (as a separate entity, so it might replace the website in the long term).

    My home DIR on the host has the user directories and a www for the website itself. So, if you enter the domain name (www.amanuensis.de) the www/index.htm is shown.

    I now did create www/wp to take all the WordPress files and managed to do a proper install (database, wp_config, etc.) and the blog is basically running. However, I deleted it because of the following:

    Pretty Permalinks (date/post-title) do not work – I get “no such file or directory messages” (although the .htaccess is in www/wp/wp-admin and I did wait a day).

    When I try to chmod the wp directory or any other files/directories, I cannot change directory any longer and nothing works. The r/w permessions after creating the wp are drwxr-xr-x.

    So, my questions:
    1. Is it correct to place the .htaccess in www/wp/wp-admin or does it need to go somewhere else?

    2. I was under the impression that I would need Owner r/w and Group r/w as well as Other r permissions for the directories, but this leads to non-working folders and installation. What is the correct permission? And do I need to vary them by folder?

    3. I cannot change themes from within Admin, I have to upload the .php’s anew for them to work. So it all seems to boil down to a permission conflict. I do not want to make it 777 (that is r/w/e for Owner, Group and Others), obviously.

    4. I noticed that in the current configuration, the RSS feed buttons call up an error message. Maybe that will be gone with the proper permissions, too? Or do I need a specific plug-in/module loaded for those?

    5. A layout question: Can I have a static page shown in the main blogging area, for example an address page or some info from the static website that is then shown like a post, but without any additional posts top or bottom and without the option to comment?

    Thank you for reading through all this.

    I do really appreciate clear answers or, of course, pointers to articles I might have missed that tell me how to help myself.

    Best
    Guido

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  • Andi Saleh

    (@bindanaku)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    1. The .htaccess file should be placed in the main WordPress directory (/www/wp or the same directory of wp-config.php).

    2. As long as the directories are allowed to read, it would be fine. Some directories will require to be set to CHMOD 777 like certain plugins.

    3. Well, in order for you to edit the Theme from the Dashboard, you will have to set it to 777. Instead, edit/upload manually via FTP or use an editor that can edit/upload directly into your site like Dreamweaver.

    4. Most likely it is caused by permission or your permalink structure -> .htaccess.

    5. Of course. Create a Page then set it as the Home Page in the Dashboard Settings.

    Thread Starter guidol

    (@guidol)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Thank you very much, bindanaku – the main problem obviously was the .htaccess.

    I had read a post here the other day mentioning the wp-admin for it. Now that I have placed it in the WP root folder, everything works like a charm.

    Thank you for the pointer to the pages option.

    All problems solved!

    Guido

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