Thanks for the reply.
I tried it but didn’t find anything.
jamie
Hmm – wonder if you need to increase the amount of memory allocated to PHP.
Also this refined search:
http://wordpress.org/search/download+instead+of+run?forums=1
Hi Michael,
I hope you can help me out here. I’m new at this RSS stuff. I have a webcomic at http://www.petestathis.com and I’m trying to set it up for RSS. I have downloaded WordPress and I’m following the Famous 5-Minute Install instructions. I’m having trouble on step 6. I’ve uploaded all the files to my website in the htdocs folder. My site is hosted by Network Solutions. When I go to visit http://www.petestathis.com/wp-admin/install.php , the browser shows all the code from that file, rather than a web page. What’s going wrong? Thanks for your help!
-Pete
Thank-you very much… I will see if there’s something I can try when I’m back at home tonight.
My wife (and her support group!) thank you for your assistance.
jamie
chmod’d the blog dir with 644 and now the download problem has gone away.
BUT – I now have shifted into another problem – when I try to run the install.php script I get:
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-admin/install.php on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.0 (Linux/SUSE) Server at http://www.peicpsg.ca Port 80
I think I’ve gone somewhat over the 5 minutes.
lol
I’m my own host… maybe that’s the problem? 😉
jamie
I’m my own host…
For diagnostics, what if you chmod the public_html directory (or wherever you installed) to 755, chown it to (yourusername):apache, and check to see if the (yourusername) account is a member of the Apache group?
p.s. I am not actually familiar with SuSE, so if I’m way off base, just disregard…
Did that, sorted it out and have gotten as far along as some others – that is I no longer get errors, but I don’t get anything.
Just a blank screen when install.php runs. Looks like lots of folks are getting that looking at the threads here.
I’m just glad this is an optional, ‘fun’, project and not something I *need* to get done.
Will be good to finally get it sorted out though.
jamie
Ok – looks like I’m on the path of rights discovery.
‘fixed’ the rights and now the installer loads. Very cool, except now I’m trying to sort out why the main blog page is blank.
Sigh.
Maybe more rights?
jamie
Good news! The site now works. Turns out everything was rights related.
Now to figure out how to get the user registration email to work…
jamie
Now to figure out how to get the user registration email to work…
Oh, boy. That can be trickey, but not necessarily hard, on a home hosted box.
Things to check.
- Do you have sendmail (or another mail server) running on your SuSE server?
- Does your ISP allow mail relay on port 25? (In all likelyhood, no).
- Researh SMTP plugins for WordPress, using a GMAIL account as your mailbox. You should be able to find a lot of discussion here on that.
I think the plugin and GMAIL solution is probably the best bet if you are using a dynamic dns service on a home server.
Read, read, read.. and then read some more. You’ll get there.
🙂
Hey – thanks.
Turns out the email *IS* working. Just wasn’t sending to one address that I use, but that could be due to the fact that it autoforwards. Might be something else, too, but I deleted my test user account, re-registered using a different email and NO problems now. WOO HOO
It helped that I had someone else testing, too. The emails worked for them so I knew it was working in general… hence my delete/re-register thing.
Testing alone is a big hassel. It’s nice to have a community here to draw on, and – at least in my case – also nice to have a network of people to test the site & it’s features.
Community – the key to so many things! 🙂
So – to wrap up: all of my ‘wordpress’ problems were rights issues at my end. Word to the wise for all other newbs to both Linux (SuSE in my case) and WordPress. a) it WORKS. b) get the file/dir permissions right (even if that step isn’t in the 5-minute docs) in my case:
chmod 755 each directory
chmod -R 644 * (gets all teh files)
If there is a mistake there let me know – that’s what I did and it worked for me.
thanks again to all
jamie
