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[resolved] Cannot Open wp-admin/install.php After Install (5 posts)

  1. excave
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Server: Windows 2008 Enterprise SP2 64-bit

    Have successfully installed PHP (Check Here) and MySQL Essential 5.1.44.

    I have updated wp-config.php with the database name I created in MySQL, the database user name and password, and left the database hostname as localhost. All settings confirmed using the status command in MySQL.

    WordPress was installed into a folder under the root of my site, at http://www.matthewkaiser.com/blog.

    When I try to open the wp-admin/install.php page, I get `500 - Internal server error.
    There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.`

    Any help would be greatly appreciated, and yes, this is my first venture into OSS! And I don't care if you're kind to a newbie, I just want help. :)

  2. esmi
    Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Have you tried re-uploading everything from a fresh download of WordPress?

  3. excave
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I did everything fresh today, never had done it before, on the server. The server is completely under my control. I will not lose anything if I remove what I've done and do it all again, I just don't think anything will be different, but I'll try. Thanks.

  4. excave
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Fixed! In the absence of a working blog installation as a reference point, I went back to the database and deleted (dropped) everything related to my new installation. I dropped the database and user I had created for the blog, and started over. I created the database, created the user, and granted permissions to the user on the new database, and now I can get to the WordPress installation page!

    Thanks for allowing me to think out loud!

  5. excave
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Oh, I forgot to post what I think was the REAL problem. I had to change my DB_HOST to the IP address of my server (locally assigned to the network card) as I guess local host was not identified correctly; may need to update the hosts file, which I will try later, but at least know that using an IP address is very useful!

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