JBartlett

Hey guys,

Sorry I have taken a while to reply, makes me seem like a bit of a hypocrite!

Late last night I tried something which I thought would be a long shot. I have another WP site, so I decided to copy the whole directory from that site, change the config file to point to the new database, and then try and run it. And much to my surprise, it worked!

@lylechamney – Thank you for your mini tutorial, I will try doing it that way in the future, as before I was extracting the .zip and then uploading it to the web server. You’re way makes more sense to me, so provided the host supports un-zipping, I’ll give it a go.

@alordiel – Thanks very much for your help, I’ll have a fiddle around and see what the actual cause of my problem was at some point. Then I’ll post it on here so people can use the knowledge if needed.

Thanks for the help!

I must go now and get this website done before the end of today! 😛

Kind Regards,
Joe

Hi Al,

Database name, user and pass have all been double checked and wp-config.php is correctly named. However, I have noticed something with the database that differs from the tutorial. I am using ISPConfig as the hosting control panel, I create the database, username and password in that interface instead of phpMyAdmin. Also, in phpMyAdmin it doesn’t give me the option to create a new database, and I cant see the “User” tab. I’m thinking this is a permission issue?

Tutorial I’m using is the 5 minute/detailed one from WP: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

Thanks very much,
Joe