Why is it not linking to a page that obviously exists on my server? Is your product defective? Because it sounds like it to me!
Yes, it’s a defective product that tens of thousands of masochists use for their sites every day.
Joking aside, I can understand and appreciate your frustration. However, making snotty comments on the support forum is not a way to illicit helpful responses.
When you uploaded the files to your web server, you ensured that you maintained the existing folder/directory and file structure?
Have you indeed confirmed that during the upload, some files didn’t accidentally get lost in the transfer?
lol…im sorry……I didnt mean to sound snotty. Just being sarcastic to cool the tides…….lol……my bad.
Anyway, yes im sure they are all there. I have even reloaded them all a couple of times to make sure.
thanks anyway
Is there something that suppose to be loaded into my actual database?
No, not yet…
Just to check:
– files unzipped into 4 folders and several files ?
– files uploaded as ASCII ?
– how are you confirming their presence is correct ?
– you are using the browser to navigate to /install.php ?
-Yes. I have 4 folders (wp-admin, wp-content, wp-images, wp-includes) and 27 loose files.
-Im using an FTP GUI to upload the files to my server. In other words Im uploading the files from a directory on my machine to its place on my webhosts server, just as I would upload regular html pages. If they need to be uploaded in ASCII format……I dont even know how to go about doing that. None of the documentation specified such, I only read to upload “all files” to my web server.
-I can physicaly view all the files that have been uploaded to my server in a number of ways, all of which confirm that a precise copy of the files that I have downloaded as the .zipped files for this particular application are present. I have a GUI to view my files on, I also have a regular file manager. Believe me….they are there.
-Yes, I have tried to navigate to the various pages using Mozillas Firefox, Microsofts Internet Explorer, and a Linux Specific browser called Konqueror, on three seperate machines.
Thanks for the reply
-“forgive me if I sound a little froward, but when I view the source coding of the page where the link to “install.php” resides, I notice that the link is coded <a href='wp-admin/install.php'>. Now if Im not mistaken, shouldnt that link be surrounded by “” instead of ”? Do you think that it would help if I could locate this page and change that html coding? Just wandering
thanks agian
This wierd……..I’m used to database connection problems – seeing the file right now should be easy.
Okay….this may sound very very dumb but it’s helped in the past.
If you upload an image to the /wp-admin directory, can you then see that image in your browser if you point the browser directly at it ?
I cant see the image, but if I point my browser directly to the image it asks me if I want to download it. Im using Firefox, so any downloads come up in a download manager that asks if I want to download it or not.
If it helps my site url is: http://www.researchphenixcity.com
The image is in: http://www.researchphenixcity.com/wp-admin/picture2.tif
Its one of the Huygens Titan photos. If I point my browser to this specific url it tries to download the image. And please, dont think your sounding dumb. Whats dums is that Im a skilled pc tech, with a good bit of experience in web design, and I cant figure this out……..lol
I more than appreciate your help and your responses. The issue isnt resolved yet, but I thank you for all of your time. You could be doing better things than trying to help someone you dont even know.
heh try deleting all files off and re uploading wordpress?
tried that as well. Im begining to think its my webhost. Maybe they dont support something or dont have something installed that I need. Thanks for all your help guys.
I agree about the webhost.
Harangue them 🙂
I need to jump into on this, because I’m having a very similar problem. I uploaded the WP folder, renamed as “blog”, to my host server. Going to http://www.websitename.ca/blog/wp-admin/install.php brings up this message “t doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.” When I click the link, I get this URL: http://www.websitename.ca/blog/wp-admin/wp-admin/install.php. I tried the load the photo to the wp-admin folder thing and I can access the just fine.
(The host I use lists its versions of mySQL as 3.23.58 and of PHP of 4.3.1, which meets the requirements for WordPress.)
I’ve tried reloading the WP folder to the server and get the same problem.
Update: my problem is solved and it was a service provider issue. A tip: when your provider says they support all the WordPress requirements, ask them if they support them on the server your stuff is on.
I’m having a problem also – even now in 1/06
<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘blog_journeyzing_com’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘dbm.journeyzing.com’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘*******’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘sqlc0e.megasqlservers.com’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
I was able to get my HL blog set up fine at that site, same server and same specs, and worked with it then I went in and did the rewording of the config file and renamed it too and uploaded that also to the JZ site but no go = it says error 404 that wp-admin/install.php is not on the server….but I checked twice and it is
update = I went in, deleted the old WP on website and started fresh. Double checked the database name, user, password and host address to be sure right. My hosting people say = ” the actual MySQL DB Host. It is sqlc0e.megasqlservers.com” so I put the name in the host area [which worked fine with the other website I’m working with a few hours ago]. So, I made sure the definitions were all right, changed the name from sample to the regular, did a re-upload via Cyberduck just fine. Went in to check and it still won’t load –
The requested URL /wp-admin/install.php was not found on this server.
the file has been renamed correctly and uploaded and the name, password etc. are all correct…any more thoughts? The thing that was difficult was that I thought it would work because I just got my other one up and working just fine, taking the same steps [they are both at same host]
