http://maczealots.com/tutorials/wordpress/
is a great step by step tutorial.
If you still have problems after going through that, check back here, but that one covers almost anything that comes up.
http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/mysql/
this site has some good trouble install/shooting issues for mysql and php on mac.
No, do I really have to go through all the console stuff, I thought this was easy? I’ve a good friend who claims not to have gone through all those steps, but simply renamed the config-sample file, included all the info and voila. I’m using the same isp, so no problem there it seems.
Are you installing on your own mac, or using a mac to install onto a server? Those are two entirely different situations. If you want WP on YOUR machine, then yes, you have to make sure that php is active, and install mysql. Once those things are done, then it’s a simple matter of changing the config file.
Oh, I’m installing it on a server, no locally – dunno why I should really? I just want a blog running on the web, so for me it makes more sense to install it on a server? I’m a bit lost here perhaps? But still, when trying to install it on the server (using CuteFTP), I get the said message, I have changed the sample file correctly (triple checked it ca. 20 times…), renamed it, uploaded it – nothing.
I’m going nuts here, what’s going on: I get this AFTER HAVING FILLED IN PROPERLY THE BLOODY CONFIG FILE, RENAMING IT, UPLOADING IT: wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.”); require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./upgrade-functions.php’); $guessurl = str_replace(‘/wp-admin/install.php?step=2’, ”, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . dirname($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) ); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?>
WHAT’S THE FRIGGIN’ DEAL – Argh….excuse my shouting a little, but it is pretty frustrating to get the message after having done EVERYTHING correct, quadruple checked at least 50 times, and still no response….
As you are getting loads of code when you try and install it looks like php is not properly configured/ enabled where you are trying to install. Talk to your host?
if you are installing on the Mac, did you put the files in ~/Sites/whatever-you-call-it or /Library/WebServers/Documents/whatever-you-call-it
If its the former, ur installation URL is http://localhost/~yourusername/whatever-you-call-it/wp-admin/install.php
If its the latter, ur installation URL is http://localhost/whatever-you-call-it/wp-admin/install.php
@cynics, he’s not installing on a mac at all, he’s installing WITH a mac, onto a server.
@mads, I just went to your site, and it’s letting me run the install, is that where you are getting the error?
