did you follow the instructions?
Did you even read the instructions?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install
At least ONE of your questions is answered there.
I know you probably already know this and everything, but I wanted to ask because I recently figured out something very obvious myself, that I was doing wrong (and by very obvious, I mean VERY obvious. Something I am ashamed to say I was messing up Lol) but, the page your trying to use, you’re using your site.co.uk/ whatever your blog is/wp-admin/install.php . . . right? Because that’s where you should go.
I apologize if you already did that, I mean no disrespect. I just had to ask because I’ve done things similar to NOT pointing to the right page 🙂
And yes, you should rename the file
did’nt know if it was because the wp-config-sample.php file still had ‘sample’ in the filename so I tried removing that. (am I supposed to?)
Yes.
First, follow the instructions as whoami indicated.
If that doesn’t solve your problem, you need to actually edit the contents of the wp-config.php as well as changing its name.
whooami, Yes I have read the instrutions. I even have a book on WordPress which I am also following but the problem I encountered isn’t covered anywhere! I would read instructions before asking for help!
Normally ‘it just works’ but for some reason when I open that install.php file in the browser still nothing happens.
MrMist, why do I need to edit the contents of that config file? Is that where the problem lies do you think? I have checked and double-checked the contents of it are correct.
BTW – I have now renamed it. I didn’t think it was meant to have ‘sample’ in the name but I thought I’d check!
Thanks for continued support.
MrMist, why do I need to edit the contents of that config file?
Because you have to replace the “sample” info with your own:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Step_3:_Set_up_wp-config.php
‘wordpress’
‘username’
‘password’
‘localhost’
need to be replaced with the values given by your host or with the values you got while setting up the database.
I knew I had to edit the file from the first instance, I just thought Mr.Mist was saying I had to edit it /again/.
The problem I’m having is that when I open wp-admin/install.php to begin the install, the page does not load. I have checked the config file many times – all seems in order.
I cannot get that php page to load! 🙁
youre installing this on IIS — are you sure that where you are installing wordpress actually supports it?
Is there any solution for this. My problem seems to be the same:
When I enter this URL(wp-admin/install.php), nothing happens, just a white page while the status bar reads ‘done’.
Well, I am using StreamLine net hosting. They set me up a database and they did say they DO support php.
What else could be perhaps UNsupported?
