WP-config.php file missing

  • lui355

    (@lui355)


    12 years, 6 months ago

    A couple hours ago my site was working perfectly fine and all of a sudden when i refreshed the page i got this message:

    There doesn’t seem to be a 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.

    and it’s asking me to create a wp-config.php file. I’m not sure what occurred during the time I went to grab some dinner and now. I didn’t do anything just refreshed it when it returned and now it won’t even let me get back into the admin page.

    the website name is: http://mariavny.com/

    Has anyone encountered this problem before? I use go daddy for my domain.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    -check if there exists the wp-config.php
    – If not, create one. Try reviewing: http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php

    leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    There doesn’t seem to be a wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started.

    Need more help? We got it…

    Does anyone know whether that is a legitimate message from WordPress? If the site had been working, I would expect to see a database connection error.

    Scriptrunner (Doug Sparling)

    (@scriptrunner)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    The message should get is this:

    There doesn’t seem to be a wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started.

    WordPress checks for the existence of wp-config.php before it makes any database queries. You’d only get a database connection error message if WordPress can’t connect to the database specified in wp-config.php.

    Scriptrunner (Doug Sparling)

    (@scriptrunner)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    What you need to find out is why the wp-config.php file went missing…

    leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    You’d only get a database connection error message if WordPress can’t connect to the database specified in wp-config.php.

    Understood.

    you will need to contact [your Web host] before you can continue.

    @lui355: Have you tried that to get the info you will need for wp-config?

    What you need to find out is why the wp-config.php file went missing…

    Agreed.

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