Title: Server running? Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Server running? * [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/) * (@ealvin) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/) * How do I know for sure that my database server is running? Thanks. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 20 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160870) * Your blog is working. * Thread Starter [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/) * (@ealvin) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160888) * Thanks for your reply. I haven’t been able to get the install script started so my blog isn’t working. One of the requirements to get the blog active is having the server running, that’s why I asked the question. Any other ideas about how to know if the server is runnng? * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160890) * Where are you hosted ? I didn’t know the basis for your question, hence my brief reply. * Do you have phpmyadmin ? * [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/) * (@carthik) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160891) * Can you provide us with a link to the site in question? * Does your host provide phpMyAdmin? If so can you login and use phpmyadmin to check if the database is running? (If it’s not then you wont be able to browse tables using phpmyadmin). * Why don’t you ask your host, if you’re in doubt, anyways? They’d be able to help in ways we won’t. * Thread Starter [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/) * (@ealvin) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160894) * Thanks guys, I’m hosted at [http://www.qualityhostonline.com](http://www.qualityhostonline.com) and, yes my site has phpadmin. When I look there I see the db is installed but there are no tables. Someone here said that when WP gets installed it will create tables. I don’t know how to see if it’s running. * My url for is [http://www.scoremoreclients.com](http://www.scoremoreclients.com). * When I attempt to run the install script by putting this in my browser [http://scoremoreclients.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php](http://scoremoreclients.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php) I get a “page not found” error message. * Thanks again guys, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your help. * [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/) * (@carthik) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160896) * [http://www.scoremoreclients.com/blog/](http://www.scoremoreclients.com/blog/) returns a 404 page not found too. * Check again, if you created the blog directory as a subfolder of public_html or www or whatever your root for the publicly viewable pages on your website is, that is, wherever the file index.html that display when [http://www.scoremoreclients.com/](http://www.scoremoreclients.com/) is accessed is. * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160897) * Ah………………this is a different problem 🙂 * When you unzipped WP, it should have done so to create a folder inside which were 4 more folders and a stack of files Did yours unzip to just the one folder and a ton of files ? * [davestinner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davestinner/) * (@davestinner) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160898) * Are you sure the /blog/ directory exists? I get a 404 when I try to go to it. * [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/) * (@carthik) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160899) * There’s more about the problem at [http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=26269](http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=26269) * ealvin, please follow up only on this thread. * Thread Starter [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/) * (@ealvin) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160908) * blog is a subdirectory of the root [http://www.scoremoreclients.com](http://www.scoremoreclients.com). The four directories and 26 files from the wp directory are inside the blog directory on my site. I’m sure the blog directory exists. I see it in the File Manager of the site. Since the install hasn’t happened yet would you see a page when you click on [http://www.scoremoreclients.com/blog?](http://www.scoremoreclients.com/blog?) * I’ll go back to the other post, I thought most of what was dealt with there was covered in this one. Thanks again. * [davestinner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davestinner/) * (@davestinner) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160914) * When I try to go to [http://www.scoremoreclients.com/blog/](http://www.scoremoreclients.com/blog/) I get The requested URL /blog/ was not found on this server. * [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/) * (@carthik) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160918) * ealvin, I guess within the root [http://www.scoremoreclients.com](http://www.scoremoreclients.com), there are other directories, besides blog, can you list them here, please? * Thread Starter [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/) * (@ealvin) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160921) * Dave, should there be a page if you use the blog subdirectory and the blog hasn’t been created yet? * earthik, here’s what else is there. * .autorespond 700 .fantasticodata 755 .trash 700 blog 755 etc 755 mail 770 public_ftp 755 public_html 750 tmp 700 www 750 Create New File .autorespond-loopprotect 0 k 600 .contactemail 0 k 600 .lastlogin 0 k 600 .spamkey 0 k 600 * That’s it. * [davestinner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davestinner/) * (@davestinner) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160923) * Yes, you will still see something even though the directory is empty. If you go to [http://www.stinner.com/sounds/](http://www.stinner.com/sounds/) you will see a page come up even though there is nothing in the directory. Looking over the list you gave, I would guess the reason it’s not working is because your blog directory should be in either the www or public_html directory. * [dave_merwin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dave_merwin/) * (@dave_merwin) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/#post-160928) * I agree. The directory “blog” should be in the directory “public_html”. That is the alias that the iis or apache server is looking for when you type scoremoreclients. com/blog/. Imagine it like a shortcut on your desktop. scoremoreclients.com is a shortcut to something like var/www/vir_host/public_html/index.html. Of course, I made all of those directories up. * If you put the dir “blog” in the root folder of your account, it will be ignored. Does that make sense? What does all that mean? * Move (not copy) the directory “blog” into “public_html” and start the install process over again. That should do it. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 20 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Server running?’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 20 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/) * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-running/page/2/#post-161299) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics