install.php does not exist – Bluehost

  • Resolved artied

    (@artied)


    17 years, 3 months ago

    Ver 2.7 – really sorry to be bothering you w this – i have read around the posts and tried what i found but no joy so far……

    This is my first time doing a self hosted version. I downloaded the ZIP – unpacked it – renamed ‘sample’ and edited it using the DB user and name prev created ‘wpblogr’ and ‘wpblogdb’ & pw & keys autogenerated be the API.

    using FireFTP in Firefox connected to doohan.org, selected the ‘wp’ dir on my local machine and uploaded this to my webhost root. i can see these plain as day in the FTP client. permissions are 755 for dirs and files.

    but when i look for ‘http://doohan.org/wp/wp-admin/install.php i get
    “404 Not Found
    The requested URL /wp/wp-admin/install.php does not exist.”

    Any thoughts….

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    WordPress extracts to a folder called wordpress so if you extracted to a folder you could have wp\wordpress.

    I’d delete what’s on your host and upload the wordpress folder.

    Thread Starter artied

    (@artied)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    No that is not the problem – i extracted and then renamed the top level dir to ‘wp’ – and then uploaded

    the doohan.org folder has 2 dirs – ‘cgi’ & ‘wp’ – the files are there – it seems to be some wierd permissions thing….

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    Bluehost uses cPanel, so delete the wp folder (save wp-config.php), upload the wordpress.zip file into the web-root foldr (public_html if that is your main domain), and then use the extract Extract facility in the File Manager and it will unzip that file into the wordpress folder. Then rename it wp.

    I’ll assume you can put the script described in Finding Server Info in your web-root folder and then can browse to that to see the PHP info.

    xerses21

    (@xerses21)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    I think I have the same issue – if I unzip the file on my machine, the wp-admin directory does not have an install.php file. There are only 4 files in this directory. Also, there’s no wp-content directory….

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    @xerses21 – actually I never thought to ask artied if that was the problem, but hopefully the suggestion to extract the zip after uploading it to the Bluehost server should overcome that.

    So, download a fresh copy of the WordPress distribution from the Download tab at the top of this page, then get http://7zip.org and use that to extract the zip files. Then delete all the files (except wp-config.php) on your host and reupload the newly extracted folder.

    figaro

    (@figaro)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    There are only 4 files in this directory. Also, there’s no wp-content directory….

    Then you are either not getting a complete download of the zip, or more likely, it’s not completely unzipping on your machine. The zip should be about 1.8mb and the unzipped directory should be about 5.4mb.

    If you are trying to install through Cpanel, then the following may help.

    http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=1

    Thread Starter artied

    (@artied)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    hi
    many thanks for the inputs – the problem was mine (and bluehosts but mine mainly)

    WP now up and running fine – just have to generate some decent content now..!

    Again thks for the support – it was as enthusiastic as i had been led to expect

    Cheers

    xerses21

    (@xerses21)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    In my case the unzip did not work wight for some reason. Thanks for your help.

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