Problem manually installing 4.2.2

RG2Cents
(@rg2cents)

10 years, 10 months ago

Hi! I didn’t have many problems manually installing 3.9.1, but for some reason 4.2.2 is giving me fits. I got a problem the first two attempts when I filled out the form for the wp-config.php. Instead of sending me to admin, it gave me a Parse error message (which I now wish I had copied to show). So I decided to make my own wp-config.php file and upload it to my files. Now when I go to the address of the blog I’m trying to set up, I get a different error, but still can’t get to admin. The error message is: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in /homepages/15/d531354473/htdocs/iso1/wp-includes/option.php on line 1081

I’m still fairly new to this so… HELP!

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Moderator t-p
(@t-p)

10 years, 10 months ago

using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides, try uploading a fresh copy of /wp-includes/option.php file from a fresh download of WP.

Thread Starter RG2Cents
(@rg2cents)

10 years, 10 months ago

Ah! That makes sense to me! I’ll give it a try when I get a chance! Thanks!

woops
(@woops)

10 years, 10 months ago

I installed wordpress on hostgator by following the quickinstall. It was successful, which was also confirmed thru my mail.But i cannot access my website nor my dashboard thru cpanel.

when I try to access my site or dashboard it always says- “[Fiddler] DNS Lookup for “natureyourhelp.com” failed. No such host is known “

pls help. am newbie.
I used wordpress 4.2.2

Moderator Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)

Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

10 years, 10 months ago

@woops Per the forum welcome please post your own topic.

https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation#postform

moshinsky
(@moshinsky)

10 years, 10 months ago

I know nothing about programmimg etc but am helping with my club’s website which is wordpress. It wants to update to 4.2.2 but won’t do it automatically or manually. I get the following error message: Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-4.2.2-no-content.zip…

Unpacking the update…

Could not create directory.

Installation Failed

Any ideas for a non technical person?

Moderator t-p
(@t-p)

10 years, 10 months ago

For MANUAL Updating, download a fresh copy of the WordPress .zip file to your computer, unzip it, and use that to copy up all files and folders EXCEPT the wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/ directory. You may need to delete the old copies of files & folder on your server before uploading the new ones.

Read the Manual Update directions first