Can you make sure that you uploaded the files, and not the entire “wordpress” folder to the blog directory that you mention?
I suspect you might have uploaded the entire wordpress directory, including the directory to the blog folder on your server. If this is the case, upload all the files inside the wordpress directory, after you have unzipped the downloaded zip file, to the “blog” directory on your server.
If it fails, since this is a new install, there is no harm in deleting the blog directory, renaming the directory “wordpress” to “blog” _before_ uploading and then uploading it to the root(public_html or similar) of your website.
There is no period after install.php – you are correct about that.
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ealvin
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Thanks for your reply. Yes I’m sure I didn’t upload the folder, I only uploaded the files. I see 26 of them (if my memory is correct) in the server’s file manager under the blog directory. They were unzipped and the wp-configur.php file was created before uploading them. Are you suggesting that there might be a greater likelyhood that if I changed the wp directory to blog and uploaded to the root that the install script would work?
No, if the files are in the blog directory as you say, everything should be okay with the upload.
Does you host provide a database, and have you created a wp-config.php file?
If your domain is example.com, then your install script will be at http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php
Can you provide us with a link to the problem site?
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ealvin
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I created the database and the wp-config.php file. The link to the site is http://www.scoremoreclients.com. To attempt to install the script I put this http://scoremoreclients.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php into my browser and Go. It brings back the page not found message. Any other info I can provide you? Thanks.
How did you get the files from your computer to the site ?
I cannot find any css files, the license.txt or readme.html which leads me to suspect that nothing has correctly uploaded – hence the issues.
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ealvin
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I ftp’d it. I checked the site’s file manager & I see both the license & readme files under the blog directory. I don’t know what the css files look like so I can’t comment on that. If you check your wp directory on your drive do you have 4 folders and 22 files? That’s what I have on my C drive and server. It looks to me like everything is there. What next?
