Can you check your web server’s error log for any relevant output?
also, you may reach me via ICQ. here is my number: 43655191
thanks.
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here is what’s in my error_log in /var/log/httpd
[Tue Aug 24 14:52:55 2004] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Tue Aug 24 14:52:56 2004] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Tue Aug 24 14:52:58 2004] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication …
[Tue Aug 24 14:52:58 2004] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Aug 24 14:52:59 2004] [notice] Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) configured — resuming normal operations
It’s not clear what directory you started in. Can you provide a little more information about your setup? Is the blueguppie.com directory configured as the document root for your website?
What version of PHP are you trying this with?
do’h, i forgot to post my version numbers:
php: php-4.3.2-8.ent
mysql: mysql-3.23.58-1.9
apache: httpd-2.0.46-25.ent
blueguppie.com is the DocumentRoot for the site. it’s under /var/www.
i don’t think it matters, but so you have a better idea of what GNU/Linux environment i’m using; i have the RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3 distrobution.
thanks.
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nope, no errors. you can confirm that the info.php works by going to:
http://www.blueguppie.com/info.php
thanks.
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Okay. Let’s try from the beginning. Can you delete the current contents of blueguppie.com, and the re-extract the files?
MySQL is running, yes? You’ve created a database already, yes?
cd /var/www/blueguppie.com
tar zxvf /tmp/latest.tar.gz
mv wordpress/* .
rmdir wordpress
chmod -R go+rx ./*
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
vi wp-config.php
yes, mysqld is running and i’ve already created a database named wordpress. i created a user named matthew with unlimited access rights to the database.
thanks
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okay, did what you said, line-by-line, and it still acts the same. 🙁
any other suggestions?
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the chmods are not neccesary.
I tried the same steps you did, on my server, and it worked fine, without the chmods.
You could try that.
Try accessing /wordpress/ immediately after extracting, without editing anything. you should get a page that say “wp-config.php could not be found” or some such message that asks you to create the wp-config.php file. If you see that then that’s something to start with, at least.
i do get that even if it is not initially in the wordpress directory after extraction.
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if i click the link for it to automatically configure/create the wp-config.php, it tells me it doesn’t have permission. does that help any?
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