Before you click on the “Run the install” button, check if there is actually a wp-config.php file in the root of your WordPress installation. This file should be created after you enter your database information and hit “Submit”.
You could also manually create a wp-config.php file but renaming wp-config-sample.php and enter your database info in there.
There is no wp-config.php there even after running the loop several times.
I tried creating my own wp-config.php, but that seems to create a whole new problem. It then says that WordPress is already installed and wants me to login. “You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first” and the only option available is ‘Log in’.
Trouble is . . . I haven’t gotten to the stage where a login is created.
Clicking ‘Log in’ takes me to a login page (not the WordPress normal login page, but some odd page listing the name of the old non-wordpress site, though the URL shows the correct URL for my WordPress install I just uploaded). It doesn’t matter what I enter at this stage, as it goes from “<www.sitename.com>/WordPress/wp-login.php” to “<sitename.com>/wordpress/wp-login.php” (notice the lowercased wordpress and lack of a www. ) and claims it can’t find the page.
Odd. I hope that helps diagnose the issue a bit more.
Thanks much! 😀
-Jim
Is it possible that the database is an old one, created by someone else for another site?
The database details you’ve entered in wp-config.php obviously are for a database that already exists. Maybe you should set up a whole new database from scratch and use that for your new installation?
I thought of that as well, so I created a new database with a new user with full privileges, and the results were exactly identical, unfortunately.
Found the problem. Apparently when I set my WP_HOME to the dynamic site name found in the site setup, it didn’t redirect properly. Once I set it to the static site name, it worked fine.
