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  • okay…. i’m new at this and with using web-based applications. so bear(sp?) with me. here is what i did (line for line):
    wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
    tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
    mv wordpress blueguppie.com
    cd blueguppie.com
    chmod +x *
    chmod wp-admin
    chmod +x *
    cd ..
    mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
    vi wp-config.php (set to my param’s for mysqld)
    i then browsed to http://www.blueguppie.com/ and got a blank page. i pointed it to blueguppie.com/wp-admin/install.php and still got nothing but a blank screen. i can view the readme.html, though. also, when i run
    php index.php
    or
    php wp-admin/install.php
    from the command line, here is what’s returned:
    Content-type: text/html
    X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.2
    please help!!!!
    thanks.
    – linuxlastslonger –

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  • Can you check your web server’s error log for any relevant output?

    Thread Starter linuxlastslonger

    (@linuxlastslonger)

    also, you may reach me via ICQ. here is my number: 43655191
    thanks.
    -linuxlastslonger-

    Thread Starter linuxlastslonger

    (@linuxlastslonger)

    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?

    Thread Starter linuxlastslonger

    (@linuxlastslonger)

    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

    Thread Starter linuxlastslonger

    (@linuxlastslonger)

    blueguppie.com is the DocumentRoot for the site. it’s under /var/www.

    Thread Starter linuxlastslonger

    (@linuxlastslonger)

    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.
    -linuxlastslonger-

    Thread Starter linuxlastslonger

    (@linuxlastslonger)

    nope, no errors. you can confirm that the info.php works by going to:
    http://www.blueguppie.com/info.php
    thanks.
    -linuxlastslonger-

    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

    Thread Starter linuxlastslonger

    (@linuxlastslonger)

    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
    -linuxlastslonger-

    Thread Starter linuxlastslonger

    (@linuxlastslonger)

    okay, did what you said, line-by-line, and it still acts the same. 🙁
    any other suggestions?
    -linuxlastslonger-

    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.

    Thread Starter linuxlastslonger

    (@linuxlastslonger)

    i do get that even if it is not initially in the wordpress directory after extraction.
    -linuxlastslonger-

    Thread Starter linuxlastslonger

    (@linuxlastslonger)

    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?
    -linuxlastslonger-

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