I just did a video tutorial taking you from step 1 to your final step installing WordPress manually:
http://wpbloghost.com/install-wordpress-maually/
Start with Video 2 – it gets into the wp-config.php settings.
The most common reason for seeing that error message is you didn’t fill in your wp-config.php file properly.
Make sure you included:
Database Username
Database Name
Database Password
Database Host
If just one of those are forgotten, it won’t work.
What if all three are correct, and I still get that error.
The other situation I’m having is when I attempt to install wordpress on a different IP address than the MySQL is installed on….same machine, just a different IP….When I attempt to run install.php, I get an error that says, “no input file specified.”
I have attempted a variety of settings for hostname in the config.php file, and nothing makes any difference in either iteration of wordpress I’ve tried to get running.
WCW
I want to thank you for your assistance. I have found the answer to my problem in a combination of other forums and other threads in this forum….
1. I had to configure the Host listing for my specific database in MySQL to “any host.” which set a % in the text box next to that drop-down in PHP MyAdmin.
2. I had to comment out the doc_root setting in php.ini
3. And finally, once I got WordPress to install, I could not see the site in the root folder of my Website, and realized after reading a post here that I’d overwritten the index.php file that launches the theme of WordPress, with a test file that had other code in it. I replaced the propoer code in the index.php page, and voila!!!
I am up and running. Now I can get complete the configuration and get content in there, and I’ll have a blog!
I just wanted to thank everyone for their assistance. WCW
