Installation

Resolved davidbayard
(@davidbayard)

10 years, 2 months ago

I have two wordpress installations on my host and am trying to install a third. I downloaded latest wordpress, edited config.php, using the existing config.php files from my other installations for MySql settings, usetname and password, but adding a different $table_prefix so I can use the same database as the others. I cannot get …/wp-admin/install.php to come up in a browser. I know it’s trying, I do not get a “cannot be found” message, just a blank page. Any hints on what I might be missing? Thanks for the troubleshooting help!

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Jamie
(@codente)

10 years, 2 months ago

Check your wp-config for any missing single quote marks around items.

Ernie T
(@ernie-t)

10 years, 2 months ago

It’s all black magic to me, I have spent several weeks trying to set up a site and I click on the blue links to get help and end up in Link Heaven, so much blue and too many choices.

Thread Starter davidbayard
(@davidbayard)

10 years, 2 months ago

Thanks! I checked and it looks okay. I went back to wp-config-sample and re-did it to be sure.
Could there be trouble accessing database? As I mentioned, two other blogs on this root domain already use it successfully, and I changed $table_prefix variable in wp-config.php so that this installation would have its own place in the database. Might that be stopping it somehow?

esmi
(@esmi)

10 years, 2 months ago

When did you register this domain name?

Thread Starter davidbayard
(@davidbayard)

10 years, 2 months ago

Domain name registered eight years ago. Would that affect things? Have FTP access, I can see all the files are there, as well as my other two installations.

esmi
(@esmi)

10 years, 2 months ago

Would that affect things?

No. Have you ensured that it is pointing correctly to your new WP install?

Thread Starter davidbayard
(@davidbayard)

10 years, 2 months ago

Hmm, not sure I know what you mean. Basically, I have three WordPress installs, in separate folders within the root folder. The other two are already working correctly, so the new one is the one I’m having trouble with. I changed wp-config in the new installation by adding four items, DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, and then DB_HOST, using the same information as the existing two installations. Then as I mentioned, added a different table_prefix other than the default “wp_”.
If I enter the actual URL for the other installations, ie, http://www.example.com/blogfolder/wp-login.php or even http://www.example.com/blogfolder/wp-admin/admin.php, or http://www.example.com/blogfolder/wp-admin/install.php, any of these URLs will work…but not on the new installation. Pretty darn sure I have the folder name right. The browser does seem to be on that page, no “cannot find” message appears, the window is simply blank.
Thanks for trying to fix this with me.

esmi
(@esmi)

10 years, 2 months ago

Can we have the url for the problem site?

Thread Starter davidbayard
(@davidbayard)

10 years, 2 months ago

Sure, the site is at http://samuraiwoodworks.com/skyboy/. You’ll be able to pull up http://samuraiwoodworks.com/blog/ to see one of the existing working sites.

esmi
(@esmi)

10 years, 2 months ago

Which is the problem site?

Thread Starter davidbayard
(@davidbayard)

10 years, 2 months ago

http://samuraiwoodworks.com/skyboy/ is the one I cannot bring up

Thread Starter davidbayard
(@davidbayard)

10 years, 2 months ago

If you think it would be helpful I can delete and re-upload all files in the /skyboy/ directory from the latest WordPress online.

esmi
(@esmi)

10 years, 2 months ago

I think you need to delete that WP install and try installing again.

Thread Starter davidbayard
(@davidbayard)

10 years, 2 months ago

Thanks, I’ll try that and get back to you. Thanks!

Thread Starter davidbayard
(@davidbayard)

10 years, 2 months ago

I think I discovered the problem, I believe the FTP is causing it. Uploaded files are present in the view pane, but their file size says 0 KB, they are damaged somehow. I’ll upgrade the FTP program so it works, and try back.