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1. petersandeen
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I decided to buy virtual dedicated server when the normal shared hosting from GoDaddy had a latency of even 15 seconds (sometimes the loading timed out).

   I've already updated the PHP version, created a database, a user for the database, established an FTP connection, uploaded wordpress to the server, and sent a thousand questions to their customer service.

   The problem is this:

   I can start the install process as usual. Everything goes fine until the automated install should create the wp-config.php file.

   It says it's unable to create it and that I should create it myself (copy-paste from the installer) and upload it to the server. And then click "Run the install".

   When I do all that I get a blank page. There's no content at all anywhere.

   I've read through a dozen threads about blank screens, but either I haven't understood a word of the explanation or I've already tried what people have previously suggested.

   So, could someone help?

   The blog (affectselling.com) is currently offline and I'd like to get it back online as fast as I can!

2. BRWeb
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Do you not have wp-config-sample.php?

   If not, what is the code in your current wp-config.php file? (Obviously don't paste your login details)

3. staceytaylor
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   ...and as an aside, godaddy specializes in domains - their hosting support is crappy, so perhaps consider going with a service specializing in hosting. (hostgator is good and affordable).

   To expand BR's question...and did you change wp_config-sample.php to wp_config.php? Double check that the database username and password are correctly input? That would be on wordpress' side, and something warping out during upload...and if it's not that, then it's on godaddy's side and good luck getting them on the ball...

4. petersandeen
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I got it working now :)

   I had done what the install process told me to do: Create a wp-config.php file and upload it. Now I did what you said and only changed the sample version and suddenly it started working.

   Thank you so much for the help!

   Can someone explain why it started working?

5. staceytaylor
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Basically it was the wrong file path to the config file - it was looking for wp_config.php, so it wasn't acknowledging the one with sample in the name ;-)

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