• A little background:
    I am trying to run this on my home computer as my current host doesn’t allow MySQL use. I just wanted to play around with it for a while.
    I have Windows ME, I installed and have running Apache 1.31.31 for Windows, and PHP 4.3.8 is running according to the Apachie console window. I have MySQL (newest 4.something for Windows from the MySQL site) installed. I run the MySQLAdmin program and then login and have the MySQL console window running as well. I had created a database called wordpress and granted all access to it.
    I configured the wp_config.php file to the correct settings. Yet I get the following above the WordPess logo:
    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.”);
    require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require(‘upgrade-functions.php’); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; ?>
    Right below the WordPress logo:
    hide_errors(); $installed = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $tableusers”); if ($installed) die(__(‘
    You appear to already have WordPress installed. If you would like to reinstall please clear your old database files first.
    ‘)); $wpdb->show_errors(); switch($step) { case 0: ?>
    Welcome to WordPress. We’re now going to go through a few steps to get you up and running with the latest in personal publishing platforms. Before we get started, remember that we require a PHP version of at least 4.1.0, you have . Look good? You also need to set up the database connection information in wp-config.php. Have you looked at the readme? If you’re all ready, let’s go!
    It says I already have it installed, but this is the first time running the program.
    Any ideas on how to get this page to load properly so I can check it out?

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  • That text could imply that PHP is not correctly installed or talking to mysql.
    When you created the databse, did you create any tables inside the database ? If you did, drop them. If you did not, there is still a problem.
    Have you used a phpinfo to check that php and mysql are talking to each other properly ?
    PHP Info
    Paste this into a new Notepad / BBEdit file
    <?php infophp(); ?>
    Save as ‘info.php’
    Upload to server. Visit in your browser (www.example.com/info.php)
    That will give you info about your php version and lots of other stuff. Check it sees the database.
    It’s a long page on info, so you will need to hunt it down.

    Thread Starter Charon

    (@charon)

    Hehe… The idiot of the year award goes to me… I was accessing the install.php file via Windows Explorer rather then via the localhost. Things are fine now. Though there does seem to have been a few errors in the php.ini file that I had to fix. Thanks.

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