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  • Forum: Installing WordPress
    In reply to: Fatal error running install.php
    Thread Starter bobsch552

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    19 years, 2 months ago

    Its not that I want to be smarter, I just don’t want to be dumber. Anyway, after not messing with the code except to change the 4 required info pieces and replacing the admin-functions.php file with a fresh one. I now am set up. Problem solved. Thank you all for your help.

    Forum: Installing WordPress
    In reply to: Fatal error running install.php
    Thread Starter bobsch552

    (@bobsch552)

    19 years, 2 months ago

    Still not resolved. I went back into wp-config-sample.php and decided that the entire sample and not just the four modified lines needed to be included in my wp-config.php. It looks like that might have been the problem… to a point. I now get the error
    Parse error: parse error, unexpected '}' in /homepages/5/d96293041/htdocs/wordpress/wp-admin/admin-functions.php on line 841

    Forum: Installing WordPress
    In reply to: Fatal error running install.php
    Thread Starter bobsch552

    (@bobsch552)

    19 years, 2 months ago

    Michael, that’s where they are but this is the message I get (same as before) when I navigate to http://recoverthefuture.org/wp-admin/install.php

    Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'ABSPATH/wp-admin/admin-functions.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /homepages/5/d96293041/htdocs/wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php on line 5

    The part where I think 1and1 has control, but that I don’t understand is (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /homepages/5/d96293041/htdocs/

    I don’t know anything in that phrase.

    Thanks again. – Bob

    Forum: Installing WordPress
    In reply to: Fatal error running install.php
    Thread Starter bobsch552

    (@bobsch552)

    19 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks to you both!
    I renamed the index.html file and it didn’t work.
    I then downloaded the WordPress files anew, put them in new folder called WordPress, added my wp-config.php file and uploaded it all via WiseFtp. I then made the WordPress folder the root folder for recoverthefuture.org, ran http://recoverthefuture.org/wp-admin/install.php with the same result. So, no luck!
    I suspect the problem lies in the way 1and1 directs the recoverthefuture.org URL to the “Destination…home directory : /wordpress”
    So, unless you have any other thoughts, I think I’ll press 1and1 and, if they are not quickly helpful, maybe I’ll move the hosting and registration for my 18 domains elsewhere.
    Thanks again. – Bob

    Forum: Installing WordPress
    In reply to: Fatal error running install.php
    Thread Starter bobsch552

    (@bobsch552)

    19 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for your reply.

    I assume when you say “WordPress root directory” you mean my “recover” directory which is my blog folder \recover (short for Recover the Future). It contains the root files I downloaded from WordPress plus my wp-config.php file and 3 folders. The complete path to the three folders is:
    – \recover\wp-admin
    – \recover\wp-content
    – \recover\wp-includes

    It also contains an “under construction” index.html file which is what opens if you enter http://recoverthefuture.org/ in a browser. If you enter http://recoverthefuture.org/wp-admin/install.php, then you get the fatal error message.

    The wp-admin folder DOES contain the admin-functions.php file. I re-uploaded it just to make sure there wasn’t a glich in the first FTP process. Still the same message.

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