Where did you copy the WordPress files. Was it in /blog/wordpress or somewhere else?
Also, providing us with a link could help us determine what the problem is.
Hi thanks
I copied the files into /public_html/income-enterprise-centre.com/blog/
and
http://income-enterprise-centre.com/blog/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
produces the error message
Config is
<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘incomeen_wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘incomeen_*****’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘******’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
$table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’
// to enable German language support.
define (‘WPLANG’, ”);
/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__).’/’);
require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);
?>
cheers
John
I copied the files
Do you mean you uploaded the files via FTP? Or…?
Yes I uploaded the files to a directory (blog) imediately after my site as recommended in the installation instructions.
Only in this case ‘your site’ is the /public_html/ folder.
Your mixing physical and virtual folders here. Try uploading everyting into a /public_html/blog/ folder and try again.
And only the content from the wordpress folder, not the folder itself. (so the blog directory should contain the wp-include and other directories)
Many thanks for that I’ll start again…………
OK did all that and it’s now a step further. the error message is now:
There doesn’t seem to be a wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.
But there is a config file and it is correct and I’m obviously pointing at the correct folder so what gives? All answers suggestions gratefully received.
http://income-enterprise-centre.com/blog/wp-config.php does not exist, but http://income-enterprise-centre.com/blog/wp-config-sample.php does.
Which translates to /public_html/blog/wp-config.php and /public_html/blog/wp-config-sample.php respectively.
First of all, you should rename that file to wp-config.php, as per the insttallation instructions and edit that file, also as per the installation instructions.
Which configuration file did you edit?
Sorry for delay in response due to family crisis.
Many thanks for that. Fresh mind a cup of tea a few minutes and it’s all working.
Thank you for your patience with a newbie to all this ftp, blogging etc. Still I’m quite chuffed as with help I’ve gone from not having a clue about websites to building one learning ftp and now I’ve got my own blog!
Thanks again
