problem with install.php…config.php not found

There’s a difference between UPGRADING an existing WP site and INSTALLING WP anew.

So which are you trying to do?

If you are upgrading, please do this to ensure the fresh files make it to your server instead of hoping that they overwrite the old files:

1. Login to WP and disable all your plugins (or just temporarily rename the plugins folder so WP cannot find it and thinks there are no plugins, which is what we want it to think)

2. Delete the following two folders:
/wp-includes
/wp-admin

3. In your WP root, delete all files with a *.php extension EXCEPT WP-CONFIG.PHP. If you are upgrading WP needs that file.

4. Also, in your WP root, DO NOT DELETE the .htaccess file.

5. Now upload the latest WP from your hard drive.

6. Type your path to WP along with /wp-admin/upgrade.php

For example, if your WP site is at:

http://www.mycooldomain.com/blog/

You would type:

http://www.mycooldomain.com/blog/wp-admin/upgrade.php

You should now be upgraded.

I guess i’m having the same problem as many people here and I am still at a loss. I have not made a blog directory on my site because I want users to reach the blog immediately. The site is called http://www.furora.nl and the wordpress files are directly put in that directory. I also have the problem with the install.php that cannot be found although it should be at that adress

No, your problem is not the same.
Look at this:

http://www.furora.nl/wp-includes/version.php

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I, for one, would appreciate a screenshot showing the path to above wp-includes/version.php

I’ve tried opening http://www.futura.nl/wp-includes/version.php. It didn’t work.

Thats my point in providing the link to it.

hello whooami,

already solved the problem. Turned out it was due to some configs in the server. Another series of phone calls with the host got me running. Php wasn’t switched on, which of course did make things complicated. Or more simple, it wouldn’t work.

Another problem was that the host name in the config.php had to be changed, it wasn’t localhost. I of course, belong to the 1 percent who have to change this )-;
Anyways, it is working now. (-:

Thanks for your trouble in helping me solve the problem

greetings,

Jordas

Hello –
Having a similar problem to the above. Here’s the error when I try to run Install.php

In browser, I type: http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/wp-admin/install.php

I get these errors:
Warning: require_once(./includes/upgrade.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/digitbr6/public_html/wp-admin/install.php on line 10

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘./includes/upgrade.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home2/digitbr6/public_html/wp-admin/install.php on line 10

Here is the wp-config file:
<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘digitbr6_digitalimagemag’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘username not shown’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘not shown here’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

// Change SECRET_KEY to a unique phrase. You won’t have to remember it later,
// so make it long and complicated. You can visit http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/
// to get a secret key generated for you, or just make something up.
define(‘SECRET_KEY’, ‘It was a hobbit hole and that means comfort’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

// 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-content/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-content/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’);
?>

From what I can see (not knowing PHP), it looks like it’s expecting a file called Upgrade.php in the WP-Includes folder. There isn’t such a file, but there IS one called Update.php. Could this be a bug? Not likely, I know…

TIA for your help!
-Bob

Whooami –

Boy you’re quick! Yeah, I thought that I may have screwed up the upload. I will look into it. Thank you!

that was it

No, really? 🙂

Youre welcome.