PHP Error Message

Resolved Justinattas
(@justinattas)

12 years, 10 months ago

Please forgive me for my confusing questions and lack of understanding, I am completely new to web design and WordPress. I will describe exactly what I did to get to the point that I am at so that anyone who is gracious enough to try and help can understand where I am at. So first I went to a website called 000webhost.com and set up a domain and a subdomain. Then I went to freedomain.co.nr and set up a domain forwarder for my domain and subdomain separately. At this point I downloaded winZip and WordPress. I extracted wordpress to my desktop and downloaded FileZilla. Using info from my 000webhost account, I linked my domain to FileZilla. Next I dragged my wordpress folder into FileZilla and put it in my public folder. Then I deleted the default.php file. After this I went to the cPanel for my domain and went to MySQL under software and set up the info there. Following this I went to the URL for my domain and was able to start setting up my wordpress site. I filled in all of the info from MySQL and hit submit. But when I hit submit I come up with a message that says “The file ‘wp-config.php’ already exists. If you need to reset any of the configuration items in this file, please delete it first. You may try installing now.” I don’t want to screw things up even more by doing this before I know what I’m doing. A few times I got past this part to a page that has a button to start installation, but when I clicked on it (or the installing now link on the other page I mentioned) I end up with a confusing message. It says PHP Error message on the top of the page and then it says “Warning: require_once(/home/a8043985/public_html/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-list-table.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/a8043985/public_html/wp-admin/includes/admin.php on line 53” and “
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/a8043985/public_html/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-list-table.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/a8043985/public_html/wp-admin/includes/admin.php on line 53″ I have no idea what this means or how to fix it. Setting up this website is very important to me, as I need to create a web base for my novel series to help it get on its feet. Any and all help is very greatly appreciated, thank you!

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Abhishek Ghosh
(@abhishek_ghosh)

12 years, 10 months ago

Then I deleted the default.php file.

You have done everything rightly but — but where from the default.php originated ?
TheHandOfCod
(@chrisodell)

12 years, 10 months ago
There are a couple of points here so I will try and address them one at a time :-
1. The file ‘wp-config.php’ already exists
  
  If you have got past the initial stage already then the WP installation will have attempted to create the wp-config.php file for you, and in your case it sounds like the installation process has created the WP config file. If you want to start over again you can either 1) Ignore the message and carry on. As long as the values in the config file are correct then this will not cause a problem. 2) Rename the file to something like wp-config-1.php. However everytime you re-run the installation you will need to rename the file to something different each time. 3) Delete the file (even though I know you have said you do not want to). It will not cause a problem if you do, as the WP installation process should create it for you again.
2. “…failed to open stream…”
  
  A quick search on google seems to suggest that in this case it sounds as if something has not gone quite right with the extract and upload to the website. I would strongly recommend seeing if you can verify the correct file structure of your WordPress install on the server. Something else to try would be to check the permissions, but with current versions of WordPress this is probably not an issue. If you are using CPanel I believe there is a File Manager option which, if you open it and navigate to the relevant folder, should be able to tell you what the permissions are.
Good luck with your install, and I hope you get it working.
Abhishek Ghosh
(@abhishek_ghosh)

12 years, 10 months ago

You can compare the files :

http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/3.5.1/

Delete everything and create a new database. Freshly try to install it again.

Or if you need a free web hosting, you can use RedHat OpenShift or AppFog like Platform as a Service. OpenShift will require nothing to configure, just click to install — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBFup8cWgQg

Thread Starter Justinattas
(@justinattas)

12 years, 10 months ago

Thanks guys for all the help, I figured it out thanks to you! I just had to listen to the message my webpage told me. I went to my wordpress folder and found the file my page said I was missing and uploaded it, then fixed the error in its code. I am able to configure wordpress now, thank you again!

Abhishek Ghosh
(@abhishek_ghosh)

12 years, 9 months ago

I went to my wordpress folder and found the file my page said I was missing and uploaded it, then fixed the error in its code

Great to know that it has been fixed.

caribhereiam
(@caribhereiam)

12 years, 9 months ago

When I looked into the WP download and the WP-Members download .zip files, I noticed several duplicate files of different sizes. If I unzip on my pc the OS will ask what to do with these duplicates.

e.g., for WP duplicates are 404.php, about.php, admin.php, archive.php, author.php

and for WP-Members the duplicates are index.php, users.php

What criteria do I use to decide which copy I should use ?

Thanks in advance for the help.

WPyogi
(@wpyogi)

12 years, 9 months ago

@caribhereiam – please start your own thread – http://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation